At least four people dead and 14 others injured after two earthquakes hit southwestern China
Authorities dispatched hundreds of people for a search and rescue operation and to treat the injured. A shallow 6.1-magnitude quake hit a sparsely populated area in Sichuan province about 100 kilometres west of provincial capital Chengdu, state broadcaster CCTV said on Wednesday.
It was followed three minutes later by a second quake of magnitude 4.5 in a nearby county where the deaths and injuries occurred, according to CCTV. Authorities dispatched hundreds of people for a search and rescue operation and to treat the injured, the report said. The China Earthquake Networks Center said the first quake, in Lushan county of Ya'an city, struck at a depth of 17 kilometres at about 5 pm.
The US Geological Survey said the quake registered a magnitude of 5.9 and was more shallow at a depth of 10 kilometres.At least one person was killed and six others injured after two earthquakes in Ya'an City, southwest China's Sichuan Province, on Wednesday.
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