Moderate Quake Rattles Southwest China, One Dead

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Moderate Quake Rattles Southwest China, One Dead

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A moderate earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale hit China's southwestern province of Yunnan late Monday night, killing one person and causing over 100 houses to collapse, a seismological official said on Tuesday.

The tremor struck at 11:16 p.m. in Dayao county, an official with the China Seismological Bureau said.

"There has been some damage. One person has been killed, and two others are severely injured," said the official. "It's not a heavily populated area. That's all we know for now."

In early July, a 6.1 magnitude quake rattled the mountainous Tibet region with no casualties.

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