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Thirteen people, including six tourists, were killed and 175 injured when a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck a remote, mountainous part Sichuan in China's southwest, the provincial government and official media said on Wednesday.
The quake hit a sparsely populated area 200 km (120 miles) northwest of the city of Guangyuan late on Tuesday at a depth of 10 km (6 miles), the US Geological Survey said. It was also close to the Jiuzhaigou nature reserve, a tourist destination.
A separate quake with a magnitude of 6.6 struck a remote part of China's far northwestern region of Xinjiang, more than 2,000 km (1,240 miles) away, on Wednesday morning, the Chinese earthquake administration said. There were no immediate reports of casualties there.
The Sichuan government said 100 tourists had been trapped by a landslide following Tuesday's quake. Six tourists were among those killed, according to the official China News Service.
The state-run Xinhua news agency said a total of 13 people had been killed, citing the provincial government, and that as many as 31,500 tourists had been evacuated from the quake zone.
A reception area in a hotel had collapsed, trapping some people, but 2,800 people had been evacuated from the building safely, the Sichuan fire service said.
There was no confirmation of the nationalities of any of the tourists, but Jiuzhaigou is far more popular with Chinese tourists than foreigners.
The Sichuan earthquake administration, which also measured the quake at a magnitude of 7.0, said the epicenter of the tremor was in Ngawa prefecture, which is largely populated by ethnic Tibetans, many of whom are nomadic herders.
The area was rattled by a number of aftershocks on Wednesday.
Pictures on state-run social media sites showed some damage in Jiuzhaigou, with tiles having fallen from buildings and people gathering outdoors.
M7.0 earthquake jolts Jiuzhaigou county, southwest China's Sichuan Province; epicenter recorded at a depth of 20 km (Video: local media) pic.twitter.com/VY1SmQY10hState television said electricity had now largely been restored to the affected areas and the military was also sending rescuers to help with relief efforts. Jiuzhaigou airport was operating as normal after the runway was checked for damage, the report said.
- CGTN (@CGTNOfficial) August 8, 2017
610 fire officers and soldiers, 8 sniffer dogs dispatched to the scene after M7.0 #earthquake hits Jiuzhaigou county, SW China's Sichuan pic.twitter.com/SArDCD3FTi
- People's Daily,China (@PDChina) August 8, 2017
Evacuation launched at the scenic spot of Jiuzhaigou County in SW China's #Sichuan Province at the moment after M7.0 #earthquake hit on Tue pic.twitter.com/3V58h8jGmO
- People's Daily,China (@PDChina) August 8, 2017
Video streamed back from #Jiuzhaigou shows rescue works still undergoing; 13 people killed and 175 injured in M7.0 #earthquake in Sichuan pic.twitter.com/kIdD87jsw3
- China News ????? (@Echinanews) August 9, 2017
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