Robust Earthquake Kills at the least 34 in Southern China

A strong earthquake in southern China’s Yunnan province toppled homes on Sunday, killing dozens of people and injuring more than 100, officers and state media reported.

Yunnan’s seismological bureau said 24 humans died and extra than a hundred had been injured in Qiaojia County. It stated another four died in Ludian County, with 3 lacking and one seriously injured.

China’s professional Xinhua information enterprise stated as a minimum 34 people had been killed in the quake.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the value-6.1 quake struck at 4:30 p.m. at a intensity of 10 kilometers (6 miles).

Ma Liya, a resident of Ludian’s county seat, told Xinhua that the streets there had been like “a battlefield after bombardment.” She brought that her neighbor’s house, a brand new two-story constructing, had toppled.

Chen Guoyong, the head of Longtoushan Township, told Xinhua that many houses there had collapsed, and that rescue people were running to determine casualties.

photos at the chinese language social media site Weibo confirmed several humans seemingly injured amid toppled bricks.

chinese language state broadcaster CCTV said the quake changed into the strongest to hit Yunnan in 14 years. It stated that the quake loosened rocks that blocked a avenue near the metropolis of Zhaotong and broadcast an photograph of a vehicle apparently broken via particles from the temblor.

In 1970, a value-7.7 earthquake in Yunnan killed as a minimum 15,000 human beings, and a value-7.1 quake in the province killed greater than 1,four hundred in 1974. In September 2012, 81 people died and 821 had been injured in a chain of quakes in the Yunnan location.