(AP) BEIJING – A series of earthquakes collapsed houses and triggered landslides Friday in a remote mountainous part of southwestern China where damage was preventing rescues and communications were disrupted. At least 64 deaths have been reported.
compiled. I don’t know what it was like for the other towns, but my town got hit badly,” he said. Like many Chinese officials, he refused to give his name.
Mobile phone services were down and 온라인카지노 regular phone lines disrupted. Phones were cut off to clinics in four villages in Qiaoshan, another town in Yiliang, which has about half a million people.
Authorities sent thousands of tents, blankets and coats to the area, Xinhua said.
It said that so far no casualties had been reported in neighboring Guizhou, but that homes had been damaged or destroyed there.
Friday’s quakes were relatively shallow, about 6 miles deep, creating an intense shaking even at a lower magnitude.
By comparison, the 7.6-magnitude quake that struck Costa Rica this week was 25 miles below the surface, and combined with strict building codes, kept damage and deaths to a minimum.
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