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400,000 to be relocated after quake in South China
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July 10, 2009
BEIJING
– More than 400,000 people need to be relocated after an earthquake rocked southwestern China, destroying thousands of homes, state media said Friday.
Thursday's magnitude-6.0 temblor, centered in Yunnan province's Yao'an county, killed one person
and injured 325 others, 24 seriously, the Xinhua News Agency said.
Nine aftershocks have followed the quake, with the latest registering a 5.2-magnitude Friday evening, Xinhua said. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
The quake collapsed 18,000 homes and damaged 75,000 more, Xinhua said.
The report said China's civil affairs ministry has ordered the immediate delivery of 5,000 tents and
other relief materials. The provincial civil affairs department has already allocated 4,000 tents, 3,000 quilts and other relief materials to Yao'an.
More than a 1,000 police and soldiers have been dispatched to the disaster zone, Xinhua said.
Yunnan is a quake-prone, mountainous region that lies on China's southern border with Thailand and Myanmar. It also borders Sichuan province, where a magnitude-7.9 quake last year left almost 90,000 people dead or missing.
In 1988, a 7.1-magnitude quake in Yunnan near Myanmar killed 930 people. More than 15,000 people died after a magnitude-7.7 earthquake in the province in 1970, though authorities at the time covered up information on casualties and damage amid the chaos of the Cultural Revolution.
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Map locating the epicentre of a 5.7 magnitude quake that struck in China's Yunnan province. Emergency officials were evacuating more than 400,000 people after an earthquake hit southwest China, killing one person, injuring hundreds and flattening more than 18,000 homes.
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China quake flattens 18,000 homes, leaves one dead
Fri Jul 10, 2009
BEIJING
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– Emergency officials were evacuating more than 400,000 people after an earthquake hit southwest China, killing one person, injuring hundreds and flattening more than 18,000 homes.
A government relief official in Yao'an county, a mountainous area of picturesque Yunnan province, told AFP that one person had died and 328 had been injured.
The US Geological Survey said the moderate 5.7-magnitude quake struck at 7:19 pm (1119 GMT) Thursday at a shallow depth of 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) in Yunnan province.
"I was harvesting tobacco leaves... when the quake hit. I felt dizzy and saw villagers falling over. Many houses collapsed," Dong Zhaofu, a farmer in Yao'an county told the Xinhua news agency.
A 50-year-old woman was buried in the debris of collapsed houses and died later in hospital from serious blood loss, Xinhua said, citing local officials.
The quake was centred on a relatively sparsely populated area 98 kilometres (61 miles) east-northeast of the city of Dali.
Eight aftershocks followed, driving residents outdoors into the warm night for fear of greater damage, Xinhua said.
More than 18,000 houses collapsed and over 75,000 others were damaged in six counties of Yunnan, with 30 people suffering serious injuries, it said.
Over 1,000 soldiers and police officers, including about 300 from neighbouring Sichuan Province, were helping residents to safety, Xinhua said adding that provincial authorities were sending tents, quilts and other aid supplies.
Yunnan governor Qin Guangrong ordered 20 million yuan (2.9 million dollars) be allocated for disaster relief, the agency said, however, emergency officials estimate damage could cost the local economy 2.5 billion yuan, it reported.
Last year in Sichuan, nearly 87,000 people were left dead or missing when a massive 8.0 magnitude earthquake shook the province in China's mountainous southwest.
The deadliest earthquake to strike China in over 30 years flattened entire cities and towns, destroying schools, hospitals, homes, buildings and factories in nearly 50,000 villages.
Around 7,000 schools collapsed in that quake even as neighbouring buildings stood intact, leading to the death of thousands of children and causing huge anger among grieving parents, who blamed poor construction and official corruption.
Yunnan province, where Thursday night's quake hit lies on China's southern border with Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam.
Yao'an county has a population of 207,900 from 23 separate ethnic groups, according to the county government's website.
Its spectacular scenery and ethnic diversity have led China's government to promote the relatively unspoilt region as a tourist destination in recent years.
Southwest China as a whole is part of the boundary between two of the Earth's tectonic plates, the Indian and Asian plates, whose constant collision has created the Himalayan mountains and Tibetan plateau.
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