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Magnitude-7 quake hits China; five dead
Saturday April 20, 2013 09:18:32 AM,
IANS
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Beijing: Five people
were killed as a powerful earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter
scale jolted south China's Sichuan province Saturday morning.
The provincial seismological bureau confirmed five deaths.
According to the China Earthquake Networks Centre, the temblor hit
the province's Lushan county of Ya'an city at 8.02 a.m., Xinhua
reported.
The epicentre, having a depth of 13 km, was monitored at 30.3
degrees north latitude and 103.0 degrees east longitude. And, it
was strongly felt by residents in Sichuan's capital city of
Chengdu, about 140 km from Ya'an.
Multiple aftershocks jolted the area after the 7.0-magnitude
quake. The biggest among of them, measuring 5.1-shook the
bordering area of Lushan and Baoxing counties of Sichuan, at 8.07
a.m.
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