AP PHOTOS: China rushes relief after Sichuan quake
Apr 23, 2013, 3:13 PM
(AP) – Saturday’s earthquake in China’s Sichuan province, measured by China’s earthquake administration at magnitude 7.0 and by the U.S. Geological Survey at 6.6, killed at least 192 people, injured more than 11,000 and left nearly two dozen missing, mostly in the rural communities around Ya’an city. The temblor struck along the same fault line where a devastating quake to the north killed more than 90,000 people in Sichuan and neighboring areas five years ago in one of China’s worst natural disasters. Relief teams flew in helicopters and dynamited through landslides to reach some of the most isolated communities, where rescuers in orange overalls led sniffer dogs through piles of brick, concrete and wood debris to search for survivors.
Here’s a gallery of images from this deadly earthquake.
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