No death reported in Tibet's earthquake areas
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-04-20 17:04 No deaths have been reported
in an earthquake that jolted Baingoin County of Tibet Autonomous Region early
Thursday, a local official told Xinhua over the phone.
The quake, measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale, flattened some houses in the
epicenter area but no casualties have been reported,said Sigyai, head of the
Publicity Department of Baingoin County Committee of the Communist Party of
China.
The State Seismological Bureau said the earthquake hit Baingoin County at
5:05 a.m. with the epicenter being 31.5 north latitude and 90.3 east longitude,
about 30 km from the county town of Baingoin.
Sigyai said the quake affected eight of the ten towns in Baingoin County, of
which Jiaqun town suffered the most serious damages.
Reports from Jiaqun town show that a grain depot and some buildings in a
local school collapsed. And cracks were seen on thelocal government office
building and some residential buildings of local herdsmen and farmers, Sigyai
said.
Sigyai said Baingoin county government had sent rescuers to the
quake-affected areas.
A county of 36,028 people, Baingoin is located in the hinterland of the
highlands in northern Tibet and covers 30,000 square
km.
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