Earthquake leaves 1 dead, 81 injured in Hubei
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-11-27 08:41

Besides one killed, another 81 people were confirmed injured in central China's Hubei Province, which was affected by an earthquake in the northern part of the adjacent Jiangxi Province on Saturday morning.

Of the injured, including 11 badly injured, 78 are students who got wounded in tramplings during the course of evacuation, according to the provincial civil affairs department. One is sitllfacing life danger.

So far, 216 houses tumbled, and damage was done to 1,075 more houses in Wuxue City, Huangmei, Jichun and Tongshan counties, all in the eastern Hubei Province.

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 in Jiangxi and Hubei provinces.