Powerful China Earthquake March 10, 2011

USGS 5.4 Magnitude 2011/03/10 04:58:18 24.710 97.994 10.0 MYANMAR-CHINA BORDER REGION

22 Dead - China Earthquake Topples Large Buildings Mar 10 2011
BEIJING — An earthquake struck China's extreme southwest near the border with Myanmar Thursday, killing at least 22 people and injuring more than 200.
Witnesses reported that a supermarket and a hotel had partially collapsed in the magnitude 5.8 earthquake, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
Xinhua saidthere were reports that people had been buried under debris and that the tremor had caused a power outage across Yingjiang.
The agency said there had been three aftershocks, measuring up to 4.7 degrees on the Richter Scale, within 10 minutes.

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