At least 4 people dead in earthquakes in southwestern China

BEIJING -

Two earthquakes killed at the least 4 folks and broken homes in southwestern China on Wednesday, authorities and state media stated.

Fourteen others had been injured, at the least one critically, state broadcaster CCTV stated in an internet report. All the useless and injured had been in Baoxing county in Sichuan province.

A magnitude 6.1 quake struck at a depth of 17 kilometers (10 miles) in Ya'an metropolis, about 110 kilometers (65 miles) southwest of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan, the China Earthquake Community Heart stated. A magnitude 4.5 quake, additionally in Ya'an, adopted three minutes later, the official Xinhua Information Company stated.

The Sichuan fireplace division stated some homes had been broken and greater than 1,400 rescuers had been headed to the realm. The Southwest Railway Authority stated some sections of observe had been closed, inflicting delays to passenger trains.

The primary earthquake was an aftershock of a magnitude 7.0 quake in 2013 that killed 196 folks, provincial officers stated, in response to CGTN, the worldwide arm of CCTV.

China's deadliest earthquake in recent times was a 7.9 magnitude quake in 2008 that killed almost 90,000 folks in Sichuan.