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Beijing\/Chengdu, Jun 1 (PTI) At least four people were killed and 14 others injured when a powerful earthquake of 6.1-magnitude on Wednesday struck Ya’an city in China’s quake-prone southwestern Sichuan province, authorities said.<\/p>\n
The quake rattled Lushan County of Ya’an city at 5:00 pm local time, according to the China Earthquake Networks Centre (CENC).<\/p>\n
The epicenter, with a depth of 17 kilometers, was monitored at 30.4 degrees north latitude and 102.9 degrees east longitude, the CENC said.<\/p>\n
The quake was followed by a 4.5-magnitude tremor three minutes later in Baoxing County, the city of Ya’an.<\/p>\n
Four people were killed and 14 others injured in the quake, the state-run People’s Daily reported.<\/p>\n
All the casualties were reported from Baoxing County, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported, quoting Ya’an city’s earthquake relief headquarters.<\/p>\n
The four people, who died in the quake, were hit by falling rocks, it said, adding that the injured have been shifted to hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n
The videos and photos posted in the social media showed the quake and aftershocks have caused landslides, damaged buildings including the houses built for those affected by the 7.9-magnitude earthquake in 2008 in the province located on the Tibetan plateau.<\/p>\n
School children ran out from their classrooms while residents in different localities ran into the streets as the earthquake rattled the region followed by a series of aftershocks.<\/p>\n
Telecommunication in parts of the two counties was damaged due to the quake, but some optical cables have been restored after emergency repairs.<\/p>\n
Ya’an has activated the second-highest level of emergency response for the earthquake and is conducting damage assessments.<\/p>\n
More than 4,500 personnel from emergency rescue, the armed police, the fire department, the medical sector and other departments were dispatched to the earthquake-hit areas to search for and rescue the injured, repair roads and relocate affected residents.<\/p>\n
The provincial earthquake administration said that the 6.1-magnitude earthquake of Lushan was an aftershock from the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that killed more than 100 people and injured thousands in 2013.<\/p>\n
Sichuan province suffered China’s deadliest 7.9-magnitude earthquake in 2008 in which 90,000 people were killed.<\/p>\n
The Ministry of Emergency Management said an A level-III national emergency response has been activated to conduct the relief operations.<\/p>\n
A work team has been dispatched to guide and assist the local emergency rescue efforts, the ministry said.<\/p>\n
Local firefighters have reached the epicentre, while quake rescue teams of Sichuan and other neighbouring regions are on standby for relief operations, the ministry added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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