A strong earthquake in southern China’s Yunnan province toppled thousands of homes on Sunday, killing at least 175 people and injuring more than 1,400.
About 12,000 homes collapsed in ludian, a densely populated county located around 366 kilometres northeast of Yunnan’s capital, Kunming, China’s official Xinhua News Agency reported.The magnitude-6.1 quake struck at 4:30 pm at a depth of 10 kilometres, according to the US Geological Survey.Its epicentre was in longtoushan, 23 km southwest of the city of Zhaotong, the ludian county seat.
Xinhua said at least 175 people were killed in the quake, with 181 missing and 1,402 injured. At least 122 of the dead were in ludian, with another 1,300 people injured there, Xinhua reported. It said another 49 people died and 102 were injured in Qiaojia county.