At least 13 people have been killed and 200 injured by an earthquake and its aftershocks that hit Southwest China’s quake-prone Sichuan province, according to official numbers.
The magnitude 6.0 earthquake was recorded at 10:55 p.m. Monday in Yibin, a city of nearly 4.5 million located about 260 kilometers (161 miles) south of Chengdu, the provincial capital. Since then, at least 77 aftershocks have been recorded, two of which rated above magnitude 5.0.