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At least 13 individuals were killed in southwestern China by a 6.6 magnitude earthquake.<\/p>\n
The earthquake struck Sichuan Province at 13:00 local time (05:00 GMT) at a depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles).<\/p>\n
According to local media, the impact damaged telecommunications lines and sparked mountain landslides that caused “major damage.”<\/p>\n
Because of COVID regulations, around 21 million people in Sichuan’s capital Chengdu were previously instructed to stay at home.<\/p>\n
According to the China Earthquake Networks Centre, the center of the quake was in Luding, a village in a remote mountain region about 226 kilometers southwest of Chengdu.<\/p>\n
According to CCTV, tremors shook buildings in Chengdu and the neighboring megacity of Chongqing, closing roads and cutting telecommunications lines in areas home to more than 10,000 people.<\/p>\n
According to the Chinese broadcaster, the shocks also forced the shutdown of some power plants in the Garze and Ya’an areas.<\/p>\n
According to state broadcaster CGTN, more than 500 rescue personnel have been dispatched to the epicenter, and workers are working to clear roadblocks caused by landslides.<\/p>\n
Residents in Chengdu reported seeing people fleeing their high-rise apartments in a panic after receiving earthquake alerts on their phones.<\/p>\n
“There were many people who were so terrified that they started crying,” Laura Luo, an international public relations consultant, told Reuters.<\/p>\n
“All the dogs began barking when the shaking began. It was quite frightening.”<\/p>\n
“Some of my neighbors on the ground floor said they felt it very noticeably,” Chen, a Chengdu resident, told the AFP news agency.<\/p>\n
“Some of my ground-floor neighbors stated they felt it noticeably,” Chen, a Chengdu resident, told the AFP news agency.<\/p>\n
“However, because Chengdu is currently under epidemic control, residents are not permitted to leave their residential compounds, therefore many of them raced out into their courtyards.”<\/p>\n
On Friday, Chinese officials sealed off the city of Chengdu in an attempt to halt the rise in Covid cases.<\/p>\n
The latest calamity occurred months after a 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck Sichuan in June. Sichuan is an earthquake-prone region due to its location on the eastern edge of the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau.<\/p>\n
The latest disaster also brought to mind an 8.0-magnitude earthquake that struck Wenchuan county in northwest Sichuan in 2008, killing 70,000 people.<\/p>\n
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