Moderate quake hits SW China, causing injuries

Published May 24, 2014 9:16am ET



BEIJING (AP) — A moderate earthquake has struck southwest China, injuring about a dozen people and damaging thousands of houses.

The quake happened early Saturday in quake-prone Yingjiang county in Yunnan province near China’s border with Myanmar. The U.S. Geological Survey said it had a magnitude of 5.6.

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