Over the past five years, there have been 29 earthquakes with magnitudes of 3 or above within 200 km of the epicentre of Tuesday's temblor, according to the Sichuan province's earthquake bureau.

A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 that killed at least 96 people in western China near Nepal on Tuesday was one of the country's deadliest i ...

A quake of magnitude 8.0 that killed 69,227 people in May 2008 was one of China's deadliest natural disasters in decades. The ...

Southwestern parts of China are frequently hit by earthquakes. A huge quake in Sichuan province in 2008 killed almost 70,000 people. According to China's state broadcaster CCTV, there have been 29 ...

Damage to houses the wake of the 6.8 earthquake The entire plateau is seismically active, as well as its eastern and northern rims, which overlap with the Chinese Provinces and regions of Sichuan ...