China earthquake kills 24 and destroys over 1,000 buildings Tweet

An earthquake toppled more than 1,000 houses and apartment buildings in China's southwest near the border with Myanmar on Thursday, killing at least 24 people and injuring more than 200, officials and state media said.

The China Earthquake 2011: The 5.8-magnitude earthquake at 11.28 a.m. local time (0458 GMT) was centered in the Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture in China’s Yunnan Province, close to the border with Burma. It struck about 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) deep, making it a shallow earthquake, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC). The death toll from an earthquake that hit Yingjiang County in southwest China’s Yunnan Province Thursday noon has risen to 25, local authorities said. The local authorities said that the death toll from an earthquake that hit Yingjiang County in southwest China’s Yunnan Province Thursday noon has risen to 27.

So many earthquake happened in this year. China, Japan, and Indonesia. Let's pray for them for a better tomorrow and this might happened due to the situation earth are having now. We should do something to save the earth.

So PLEASE DO YOUR PARTS! For a better future for everyone.

Here's are some source that I found the news from.

csmonitor    myvisitingcard    xinhuanet

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