Updated - November 17, 2021 02:45 am IST
Published - March 11, 2011 03:57 pm IST - BEIJING
Firemen search for victims after an earthquake jolted Yingjiang county in southwestern China's Yunnan province on Thursday. Photo: AP.
China’s state media is reporting that a moderately strong earthquake in the southwest topped more than 18,000 houses and apartment buildings.
Thursday’s temblor left 25 dead in a mountainous area in Yunnan province, near the border with Myanmar.
More than 127,000 of Yingjiang county’s 300,000 people have been displaced by the temblor which Chinese authorities measured at a magnitude 5.8.
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