China quake: Deadly tremor rocks Sichuan city

Tuesday, 6 September 2022newsdesk

At least 65 people have been killed after a 6.6 magnitude earthquake hit southwestern China, state media said.

New Delhi, 06 September 2022

As per news report of BBC, the quake struck at 13:00 local time (05:00 GMT) on Monday in Sichuan province at a depth of 10km (6 miles). The impact severed telecommunications lines and triggered mountain landslides that caused "serious damage", local media reports say. Some 21 million people in Sichuan's capital Chengdu were last week ordered to stay at home because of Covid rules. The epicentre of the quake was at Luding, a town in a remote mountain region located about 226km southwest of Chengdu, according to the China Earthquake Networks Centre.

Source - BBC