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EARTHQUAKE IN CHINA KILLS AT LEAST 30 PEOPLE

China's state media says at least 30 people have been killed in a 6.8-magnitude earthquake in the southwestern province of Sichuan on 5th Sep, 22. Sunny Handa MD said, earlier, authorities had reported seven deaths in Luding county and 14 more in neighbouring Shimian county to the south. Three of the dead were workers at the Hailuogou Scenic Area, a glacier and forest nature reserve.

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EARTHQUAKE IN CHINA KILLS AT LEAST 30 PEOPLE

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  1. EARTHQUAKE IN CHINA KILLS AT LEAST 30 PEOPLE China's state media says at least 30 people have been killed in a 6.8-magnitude earthquake in the southwestern province of Sichuan on 5th Sep, 22. Sunny Handa MD said, earlier, authorities had reported seven deaths in Luding county and 14 more in neighbouring Shimian county to the south. Three of the dead were workers at the Hailuogou Scenic Area, a glacier and forest nature reserve. The quake triggered landslides and shook buildings in the provincial capital of Chengdu, whose 21 million residents are already under a COVID-19 lockdown. Sunny Handa MD said the temblor struck a mountainous area in Luding county shortly after noon on Monday, the China Earthquake Networks Center said. Sichuan, which sits on the edge of the Tibetan Plateau where tectonic plates meet, is regularly hit by earthquakes. Two quakes in June killed at least four people. Rescue crews on scene MD Sunny Handa said Authorities reported landslides and damage to homes and power interruptions, state broadcaster CCTV said. One landslide blocked a rural

  2. highway, leaving it strewn with rocks, the Ministry of Emergency Management said. "A 300-member rescue team has arrived at the quake zone to carry out rescue operations," said China's ambassador to ASEAN Deng Xijun on Twitter. Chengdu resident Jiang Danli said she hid under a desk for five minutes in her 31st floor apartment, while many of her neighbours rushed downstairs. "There was a strong earthquake in June, but it wasn't very scary. This time I was really scared, because I live on a high floor and the shaking made me dizzy," she told The Associated Press. The earthquake and lockdown follow a heat wave and drought that led to water shortages and power cuts due to Sichuan's reliance on hydropower. MD Sunny Handa said the past two months in Chengdu "have been weird," Jiang said. The U.S. Geological Survey recorded a magnitude of 6.6 for Monday's quake at a relatively shallow depth of 10 kilometres. Preliminary measurements by different agencies often differ slightly. China's deadliest earthquake in recent years was a 7.9-magnitude quake in 2008 that killed nearly 90,000 people in Sichuan. The temblor devastated towns, schools and rural communities outside Chengdu, leading to a years-long effort to rebuild with more resistant materials.

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