
A moderate, magnitude 5.2 earthquake in Sichuan, south-west China, has brought down at least 100 homes, killing one person and injuring 11, officials say. US earthquake monitors report that the tremor struck at 0537 local time (2137 GMT Saturday) 35km (20m) south-east of Suining, at a depth of 18.6km (11.6m).
Houses collapsed in the Moxi area of Suining, a city of 3.5 million people. A magnitude 8 quake in Sichuan on 12 May 2008 left at least 87,000 people dead or missing.
Chinese state media said the authorities in Sichuan were "still not sure" if the latest quake was an aftershock from the earlier disaster. China's top auditing authority, the National Audit Office, reported this week that reconstruction after the 2008 quake was nearly complete.
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