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Moderate earthquake hits China's Sichuan
AFP - 1 hour 23 minutes ago
BEIJING (AFP) - - A 5.0-magnitude earthquake struck southwest China on Monday, shaking a wide area that was heavily damaged in this year's Sichuan disaster, officials and residents said.
The quake hit a remote, mountainous part of the province at 2:18pm (0618 GMT) about 100 kilometres (60 miles) north of Mianyang, a city in one of the zones worst affected by the May earthquake, the US Geological Survey said.
There were no immediate reports of deaths, injuries or damage, an official at the Sichuan Seismological Bureau, who would only give his surname as Chen, told AFP.
But the tremor was felt in Chongqing, a city roughly 300 kilometres away from the epicentre of the quake, a resident there told AFP.
A local government spokesman in Jiangyou, another town near the epicentre of the quake, said he ran out of his office when he felt the tremor.
"I was in the office then and felt the building shaking, and we ran out of the room immediately," said the spokesman, also surnamed Chen.
A receptionist at Jiangyou Hotel, who gave her surname as Wang, also felt the quake.
"I was sitting in a chair and it started to shake, I started to run out but it suddenly stopped," she said.
"All our customers are fine and nobody was hurt."
Ma Zhenquan, an official at the disaster relief office of Qingchuan county that was also affected said information was still being gathered about casualties and damage.
"The quake was located in a mountainous area," Ma said.
"We need some time to gather the information because the villages are too far away."
The latest quake occurred after two other tremors, with magnitudes of 4.3 and 4.9, hit the neighbouring province of Yunnan on Friday, affecting 95,000 people and leaving 19 people injured.
The 8.0-magnitude Sichuan earthquake on May 12 was the worst in a generation in China, flattening entire towns and leaving more than 87,000 people dead or missing.
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