Earthquakes in China kill 4 people
On Wednesday Two earthquakes in China’s Sichuan province killed 4 people and damaged houses
Cabinets are knocked over in a damaged post office after an earthquake in Baoxing County in southwestern China’s Sichuan Province on Wednesday
June 1, 2022
BEIJING — Two earthquakes killed at least four people and damaged houses in southwestern China on Wednesday, authorities and state media said.
Fourteen others were injured, at least one seriously, a state broadcaster CCTV said. All of the dead and injured were in Baoxing county in Sichuan province.
A magnitude 6.1 quake struck at a depth of 10 miles in Ya’an city, about 65 miles southwest of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan, the China Earthquake Network Center said. A magnitude 4.5 quake, also in Ya’an, followed three minutes later, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
