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Strong quake kills at least 150 in southern China

By 신현희

Published : Aug. 3, 2014 - 21:19

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BEIJING (AP) -- A strong earthquake in southern China's Yunnan province has killed at least 150 people and injured more than 1,400.

China's official Xinhua News Agency says at least 150 people died in Sunday's quake. Yunnan province's information bureau says at least 120 of the dead were in densely populated Ludian county, with another 180 missing and 1,300 people injured there. Yunnan's seismological bureau says another 24 people died and more than 100 were injured in Qiaojia county.

The U.S. Geological Survey says the magnitude-6.1 quake struck at 4:30 p.m. at a depth of 10 kilometers.

Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said the quake was the strongest to hit Yunnan in 14 years.