More than 6,500 people in southwest China's Yunnan Province have been affected by a magnitude-7.2 earthquake that jolted Myanmar on Thursday, Ministry of Civil Affairs said in a statement Friday.
As of 4:30 p.m. Friday, the quake damaged over 5,000 houses and affected a population of 6,560 in 23 townships in Yunnan's Xishuangbanna-Lincang-Pu'er region, which neighbors Myanmar, the statement said, citing a report by its subordinate provincial bureau at Yunnan.
The only injury reported in the Chinese side was that of a seven-year-old Myanmar girl. She received a fracture in her elbow after falling from a bunk bed when the quake hit her boarding school in Daluo Township of Menghai County, 50 km from the epicenter.
The strong earthquake jolted Myanmar's Loimwe on Thursday night at 9:55 p.m. Beijing time. The death toll in Myanmar has increased to 74 and the number of the injured remained at 111 as of Friday noon.
A magnitude-5.8 earthquake hit Yunnan's Yingjiang County, which also borders Myanmar, on March 10, leaving 26 people dead and 313 others injured, 133 seriously.