About 60,000 tourists and migrant workers had been evacuated from the epicenter of the quake by 5 pm on Wednesday.
The quake struck Jiuzhaigou county in the Aba Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture at 9:19 pm on Tuesday at a depth of 20 kilometers. More than 1,000 aftershocks which the strongest magnitude had struck by late Wednesday.
Most of the injured were treated at the county hospital, while some of the seriously wounded were transferred to hospitals in the cities of Mianyang and the provincial capital of Chengdu.
Source:China Daily
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