Powerful Quake Rocks China
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In this photo provided by China's official Xinhua News Agency, a giant rock blocks the road, about 20 kilometers (12.5 miles) from the county seat of Lushan in Ya'an city, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Saturday, April 20, 2013. A powerful earthquake jolted China's Sichuan province Saturday near where a devastating quake struck five years ago. (Photo by Hai Mingwei/AP Photo/Xinhua)
Men carry injured people to an ambulance at Longmen Village, Lushan county, Ya'an, Sichuan province, April 20, 2013. A strong 6.6 magnitude earthquake hit a remote, mostly rural and mountainous area of southwestern China's Sichuan province on Saturday, killing at least 102 people and injuring about 2,200 close to where a big quake killed almost 70,000 people in 2008. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)
Rescue workers sit on the debris of destroyed houses after a strong 6.6 magnitude earthquake, at Longmen village, Lushan county, Ya'an, Sichuan province April 20, 2013. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)
People stand outside a damaged house after a strong 6.6 magnitude earthquake hit, at Longmen village, Lushan county, Ya'an, Sichuan province April 20, 2013. The earthquake hit a remote, mostly rural and mountainous area of southwestern China's Sichuan province on Saturday, killing at least 102 people and injuring about 2,200 close to where a big quake killed almost 70,000 people in 2008. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)
People sit near collapsed buildings after a strong 6.6 magnitude earthquake, at Longmen village, Lushan county, Ya'an, Sichuan province, April 20, 2013. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)
People rest outside damaged houses after a strong 6.6 magnitude earthquake hit, at Longmen village, Lushan county, Ya'an, Sichuan province April 20, 2013. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)
Injured people receive medical treatment at the People's Hospital after a strong magnitude earthquake hit Lushan county, Sichuan province, April 20, 2013, in this picture provided by Xinhua. The earthquake hit on Saturday morning, killing at least 102 people and injuring about 2,200. (Photo by Jiang Hongjing/Reuters/Xinhua)
A woman reacts after her house was damaged by an earthquake in Lushan county in China's Sichuan province, on April 20, 2013. The powerful earthquake struck the area nearly five years after a devastating quake wreaked widespread damage across the region. (Photo by Associated Press)
Rescuers save an injured woman after an earthquake hit Baosheng Township in Lushan County in China's Sichuan Province, on April 20, 2013. (Photo by Jiang Hongjing/Xinhua)
People carrying their belongings through the quake-damaged Gucheng Village in Lushan County in China's Sichuan Province, on April 20, 2013. (Photo by Fei Maohua/Xinhua)
An injured man rests at a temporary treatment station following the earthquake in southwest China's Sichuan province, on April 20, 2013. (Photo by Associated Press)
An injured child is examined at a makeshift hospital at the county seat of Lushan in southwestern China's Sichuan province, on April 21, 2013. (Photo by Associated Press)
Villagers cry for their relatives who were killed in an earthquake during a funeral in Longmen village, in Lushan county in southwest China's Sichuan province, on April 21, 2013. Rescuers and relief teams struggled to rush supplies into the rural hills of the area after an earthquake left at least 180 people dead and more than 11,000 injured. (Photo by Associated Press)
A woman looks over at her destroyed house in Gucheng village in China's Sichuan province, on April 21, 2013. (Photo by Associated Press)
People walk over fallen rocks in Baosheng Township as repair crews work on a damaged bridge, on April 21, 2013. (Photo by Zhang Xiaoli/Xinhua)
This aerial photo released by China's Xinhua news agency shows destroyed houses after a powerful earthquake hit Taiping town of Lushan County in Ya'an City, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Saturday, April 20, 2013. The powerful earthquake jolted Sichuan province Saturday near where a devastating quake struck five years ago. (Photo by Liu Yinghua/AP Photo/Xinhua)