6.7 Aftershock Jolts Southwestern China
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BEIJING — A powerful aftershock jolted southwest China on Wednesday, injuring residents and collapsing buildings in the same area where 730 people were killed in an earthquake Nov. 6.
Wednesday’s tremor, registering 6.7 on the Richter scale, rumbled through southwest Yunnan province, the New China News Agency said. Several buildings damaged by the Nov. 6 earthquake, which registered 7.6 on the Richter scale, collapsed in the latest tremor, whose epicenter was located near Lancang, a hill town near the Burmese border that was particularly hard hit by the earlier quake.
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