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March 3rd, 2013 
David Schulberg the 3rd Updated: 06:12, Monday March 4, 2013
A shallow 5.5-magnitude earthquake has hit southwest China, causing 700 homes to collapse and leaving 30 people injured.
The quake struck a rural area in the province of Yunnan on Sunday afternoon but there were no reported fatalities.
The state-run Xinhua news agency says the quake’s epicentre was 9 kilometers beneath the surface, adding that thousands of people were affected by the tremor, which prompted authorities to dispatch tents, cotton quilts and coats to the area.
Southwest China is prone to earthquakes, with twin quakes in Yunnan last September triggering landslides that killed at least 80 people.
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