Hundreds of other people were injured in the powerful quake that hit the province of Sichuan just after noon Monday.
The tremor shook buildings in the provincial capital of Chengdu, home to 21 million residents, and knocked out power in several areas.
More than 50,000 people were forced to evacuate their homes after the buildings were made unsafe by the quake, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. Officials said 37 people died in the historic town of Moxi in the Tibetan autonomous prefecture of Garze, 28 people died in the neighboring Shimian country.The tremor and resulting landslides also caused power outages throughout the area.
Earthquake relief supplies are distributed to residents in Moxi Township of Luding County in the aftermath of the earthquake in China’s Sichuan Province on Sept. 5, 2022.Rescuers transfer survivors across the river in Moxi Town after the 6.8 magnitude earthquake shook China’s southwestern province of Sichuan on Sept. 5, 2022.The quake is the latest hardship faced by residents of Sichuan.
China’s deadliest earthquake was a 7.9 magnitude quake in 2008 that killed nearly 90,000 in the province. The horrific disaster pushed China to conduct a years-long effort to rebuild with more resistant materials.
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