Aug

6

Strong earthquake in China

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The government said, “An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale shook a large area of southwestern China’s Sichuan province on Tuesday”

Sources said, that the quake struck at 5:49 pm with its epicentre on the border of Sichuan’s Qingchuan county and the neighbouring province of Gansu.

The quake could be felt in the Sichuan provincial capital of Chengdu, where an Olympic torch relay was held just hours earlier, the official news agency said.

There were no immediate reports of casualties. Another aftershock in the same area left at least two people dead and injured 345 others August 1, the government said.

Tuesday’s quake was the latest and one of the strongest of thousands of aftershocks following the May 12 quake.



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