Earthquake of magnitude 6 strikes China’s Sichuan Province
The Hindu
After the quake, Luzhou City launched a level-I emergency response and sent personnel for disaster investigation and rescue
An earthquake of magnitude 6 jolted Luxian County of southwest China’s Sichuan Province on September 16, according to China Earthquake Networks Centre (CENC).
The quake struck at 4:33 a.m. (local time), the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
The epicentre was monitored at 29.2 degrees north latitude and 105.34 degrees east longitude. The quake struck at a depth of 10 kilometres, the report said.
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