Earthquake leaves one dead central China
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-11-26 20:07

The seismic bureau of central China's Hubei Province confirmed one people dead and three more injured in an earthquake taking place in the northern part of the adjacent Jiangxi Province on Saturday morning.

The Hubei provincial seismic bureau's announcement seems to contradict an earlier report by the State Seismic Bureau which said that two of the 14 people killed in the quake were from Wuxue City of Hubei.

By one p.m. Saturday, 205 houses tumbled, and damage was done to 985 more houses in Wuxue City, Huangmei and Tongshan counties, all in the eastern Hubei Province, which faces Jiangxi Province across the Yangtze River, according to Qin Xiaojun, spokesman for the Hubei seismic bureau.

He added that his bureau had sent three working teams to the above mentioned affected areas in the quake to monitor the further movement of the earth after the quake, and probe and evaluate the losses thereafter.

China National Seismic Observation Network monitored a quake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale that jolted a region between Jiujiang and Ruichang in east China's Jiangxi Province around 8:49 a.m. Saturday, with its epicenter located at 29.7 degree north latitude, 115.7 degree east longitude.

The quake was also felt in northern Jiangxi Province, eastern Hubei Province, southern Anhui Province, northwestern Zhejiang Province and northeastern Hunan Province.

The quake reportedly killed 14 people and wounded 20 others in Jiangxi and Hubei provinces.