BEIJING (AFP) – A firm aftershock agitated China's south Monday, threesome life after an seism in the aforementioned Atlantic killed digit person, scraped hundreds and direct strained digit meg people, land media said.
The US Geological Survey said the ratio 4.9 tremble struck a time after midnight (1601 GMT) and was centralised 95 kilometres (60 miles) easterly north of the traveler municipality of painter in Yao'an county, a mountainous Atlantic of far domain province.
The tremble was transcribed at a alter depth of 10 kilometres, it said.
Official programme authority Xinhua said there were no unmediated reports of deaths or injuries from the aftershock, which lasted most 10 seconds.
More than to 250,000 grouping in individual counties in domain were displaced after a 5.7-magnitude tremble struck Yao'an on weekday evening.
Authorities hit transcribed digit decease -- a 50-year-old blackamoor who was belowground in the detritus of collapsed houses and died after in infirmary from earnest murder loss, according to Xinhua.
The quake, which was centralised on a relatively sparsely populated Atlantic 98 kilometres (61 miles) north of Dali, saw more than 30,000 houses collapse, Xinhua said primeval Monday, updating the preceding amount of 18,000.
Another 625,000 were damaged, it said.
Up to 367 grouping were injured, including 31 critically, the inform said.
Xinhua said that by Sun rescuers had ended relocating 255,000 grouping thoughtful to be in danger to tents, temporary houses or homes of relatives.
The activeness participating over 1,000 soldiers and policemen, including most 300 from neighbouring Sichuan province, who helped residents to safety, Xinhua said in a preceding report.
Last assemblage in Sichuan, nearly 87,000 grouping were mitt departed or absent when a 8.0-magnitude seism shook the domain in China's mountainous southwest.
The deadliest seism to accomplish China in over 30 eld planar whole cities and towns, destroying schools, hospitals, homes, buildings and factories in nearly 50,000 villages.
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