<p>A government relief official in Yao'an county, a mountainous area of picturesque Yunnan province, said that one person had died and 328 had been injured.<br /><br />The US Geological Survey said the moderate 5.7-magnitude quake struck at 0445 IST yesterday at a shallow depth of 10 kilometres in Yunnan province.<br /><br />"I was harvesting tobacco leaves when the quake hit. I felt dizzy and saw villagers falling over. Many houses collapsed," Dong Zhaofu, a farmer in Yao'an county told the Xinhua news agency.<br /><br />A 50-year-old woman was buried in the debris of collapsed houses and died later in hospital from serious blood loss, Xinhua said, citing local officials.<br /><br />The quake was centred on a relatively sparsely populated area 98 kilometres east-northeast of the city of Dali.<br /><br />Eight aftershocks followed, driving residents outdoors into the warm night for fear of greater damage, Xinhua said.<br /><br />More than 18,000 houses collapsed and over 75,000 others were damaged in six counties of Yunnan, with 30 people suffering serious injuries, it said.</p>
<p>A government relief official in Yao'an county, a mountainous area of picturesque Yunnan province, said that one person had died and 328 had been injured.<br /><br />The US Geological Survey said the moderate 5.7-magnitude quake struck at 0445 IST yesterday at a shallow depth of 10 kilometres in Yunnan province.<br /><br />"I was harvesting tobacco leaves when the quake hit. I felt dizzy and saw villagers falling over. Many houses collapsed," Dong Zhaofu, a farmer in Yao'an county told the Xinhua news agency.<br /><br />A 50-year-old woman was buried in the debris of collapsed houses and died later in hospital from serious blood loss, Xinhua said, citing local officials.<br /><br />The quake was centred on a relatively sparsely populated area 98 kilometres east-northeast of the city of Dali.<br /><br />Eight aftershocks followed, driving residents outdoors into the warm night for fear of greater damage, Xinhua said.<br /><br />More than 18,000 houses collapsed and over 75,000 others were damaged in six counties of Yunnan, with 30 people suffering serious injuries, it said.</p>
