A predawnearthquakeshook the city of Liuzhou and surrounding areas in southern China on Monday, collapsing buildings and sending rescue teams scrambling in the dark.
The quake hit at 12:21 a.m. local time, centered in the Liunan District of Liuzhou, a city of more than four million people in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Both the USGS and China's seismological agency put the magnitude at 5.2, with a shallow depth of around 5 miles, or 8 kilometers. Shallow earthquakes tend to cause more surface damage than deeper ones of similar strength.
Emergency, fire and police personnel were dispatched to the epicenter area almost immediately. By 2 a.m., 51 fire and rescue vehicles and 315 personnel were on the ground working the affected zone.
A 5.2 magnitude earthquake struck near Liuzhou in China's Guangxi region in the early hours of Monday morning, bringing down around a dozen structuresLocal authorities have been instructed to verify casualties and damage as quickly as possible, push forward search and rescue operations, get affected residents safely evacuated and keep a close watch on aftershock activity.
Rescue operations were continuing as of the latest reports, with authorities racing to account for those still missing.
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