The death toll from a strong earthquake that hit southwest China on Saturday has climbed to 180, but the disaster appears much less severe than the traumatic quake that killed 90,000 people in the same province five years ago.
“There will not be thousands or tens of thousands of casualties,” Xinhua, the official news agency, quoted an earthquake response agency official as saying.
The quake had the biggest impact in Lushan, a country in Ya’an city about 125km southwest of the provisional capital of Chengdu. China recorded the magnitude as 7, while the US Geological Survey put the figure at 6.6.
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