China 5.5 earthquake: Over 20 Injured After 5.5-magnitude Earthquake Rattles China's Yunnan Province
Beijing: At least twenty-two people have been injured in a 5.5-magnitude earthquake that struck the county of Ninglang in Southwest China's Yunnan province on Sunday, local media reported citing authorities. The earthquake jolted Lijiang city of southwest China's Yunnan Province, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC). The tremor was felt at 3:02 pm on Sunday (Beijing Time), Xinhua reported. The epicentre was 115 kilometres away from Lijiang in Yunnan province, the USGS said.
Even though there were no reports yet of damage to houses as per the provincial seismological administration, news agency Xinhua said a 60-strong search and rescue team had been dispatched to the epicentre. China is regularly hit by earthquakes, especially in its mountainous western and southwestern regions. In September last year, three people were killed and dozens injured when a shallow quake hit Sichuan province, and tens of thousands of homes were damaged.
A 7.9-magnitude quake in Sichuan in 2008 left more than 80,000 people dead. Among them were thousands of children, killed when poorly constructed school buildings collapsed, but the government failed to release an exact number of dead as the issue took on a political dimension.
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