Quake in eastern China kills 2, damages thousands of homes
BEIJING — An earthquake in the eastern Chinese city of Fuyang has killed two people and damaged thousands of homes.
BEIJING — An earthquake in the eastern Chinese city of Fuyang has killed two people and damaged thousands of homes.
The quake struck in the Anhui province city yesterday (March 14) afternoon, and 13 people also were injured, officials in the city said. The US Geological Survey said the quake measured magnitude 4.7.
More than 10,000 homes were damaged, more than 4,000 of them seriously, and 155 collapsed, the city’s Communist Party propaganda department said.
Fuyang is a city of about 10 million people in a region that relies on coal mining and agriculture. AP
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