420,000 houses collapse in New China aftershocks: state media
Pastor Dale Morgan
420,000 houses collapse in New China aftershocks: state media*
AFP - Wednesday, May 28
BEIJING (AFP) - - More than 420,000 houses collapsed in quake-hit
Sichuan province in southwest China after two fresh aftershocks hit the
area on Tuesday afternoon, state media reported.
Xinhua news agency, quoting local disaster relief headquarters, said the
houses were in Qingchuan County but gave no other details including
possible casualties.
Southwest China has been rocked by dozens of powerful aftershocks after
an earthquake on May 12 measuring 8.0 on the Richter scale hit densely
populated Sichuan province, killing at least 67,000 people.
As of noon on Monday, 182 aftershocks measuring above four on the
Richter scale had been recorded in Sichuan, Xinhua said earlier, citing
the China Seismological Bureau.
Tuesday's aftershocks measured 5.4 and 5.7 on the Richter scale, state
media said earlier, and came within half an hour of one another.