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Powerful Earthquake Hits China

A 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit China's Sichuan Province on Monday afternoon, reportedly killing more than 8,500
people. The death toll steadily increased throughout the evening, raising concerns that the number could go far higher.
Tremors shook buildings for hundreds of miles and were felt as far away as Vietnam and Thailand, according to interviews
and reports in China's state media. Left, a collapsed school in Dujiangyan.

State media reports said "rows of houses" had collapsed near the quake's epicenter, and some reports say as many as 5,000 people may have been killed in single county. People looked upwards after evacuating tall buildings in Nanjing.

People gathered in a parking lot in Chongqing after the earthquake. China is prone to seismic activity and has suffered horrific earthquakes in the recent past. In 1976, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit the city of Tangshan, located roughly
70 miles from Beijing. More than 240,000 people were killed and nearly every building was leveled in that quake.

A rescuer searched the rubble of a collapsed building in Dujiangyan. Damage is believed to be especially severe in
Dujiangyan, a county of 600,000 people located near the epicenter.

Rescuers searched for students at a collapsed school in Juyuan Township of Dujiangyan.

Students evacuated a classmate who had fainted to a playground in Qionglai.

A street in Chongqing. Earlier in the day, the first reports of fatalities came from Chongqing, where two primary schools
were damaged. Four pupils died and more than 100 others were injured, state media reported.

Medical staff and family members evacuated patients from a hospital in Chongqing.

Patients and their family members outside the evacuated hospital.

Powerful Earthquake Hits China

A 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit China's Sichuan Province on Monday afternoon, reportedly killing more than 8,500
people. The death toll steadily increased throughout the evening, raising concerns that the number could go far higher.
Tremors shook buildings for hundreds of miles and were felt as far away as Vietnam and Thailand, according to interviews and reports in China's state media. Left, a collapsed school in Dujiangyan.

A rescuer searched the rubble of a collapsed building in Dujiangyan. Damage is believed to be especially severe in
Dujiangyan, a county of 600,000 people located near the epicenter.

Rescuers searched for students at a collapsed school in Juyuan Township of Dujiangyan.

Students evacuated a classmate who had fainted to a playground in Qionglai.

Medical staff and family members evacuated patients from a hospital in Chongqing.

Patients and their family members outside the evacuated hospital.

Powerful Earthquake Hits China

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