Seven people were dead after an earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale hit Panzhihua City in southwest China on Saturday.
One person was killed in Miyi County and another was confirmed to have died when a house collapsed in Zhongchang Township of Lihui County, Sichuan Province.
Five people died in Chuxiong Autonomous Prefecture of Yi Nationality in neighboring Yunnan Province, where 26 were injured, 11 severely, as of 8:30 p.m., said Mengfu, a prefecture government official.
The casualties in Yunnan were reported in Yongren, Yuanmou, Wuding and Dayao counties, in which four deaths were in Yuanmou and another in Yongren.
The quake struck at 4:30 p.m. . The epicenter was about 50 km southeast of downtown Panzhihua, at 26.2 degrees north and 101.9 degrees east and at a depth of 10 km, the National Seismograph Network Center said.
All the affected counties in Sichuan and Yunnan reported damaged houses.
No casualties or damaged houses were reported in the urban area of Panzhihua.
"Locals in the county rushed out into the open. Cracks appearedon house walls and many windows were broken," said Zheng Zhouwei, a local legislator in Yongren.
Yunan's capital, Kunming, about 300 km from the epicenter, and Sichuan's capital of Chengdu also felt the tremor. Many residents were staying outside after the quake.
Source:Xinhua
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