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To: dkgross who wrote (5641)	1/16/2000 5:01:00 AM
From: jmhollen	Respond to of 7209

China quake victims pass frigid night in tents BEIJING, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Thousands of Chinese earthquake victims huddled around bonfires and in neighbours' homes to escape freezing overnight temperatures after two tremors destroyed 10,000 homes and killed at least four people, state media said on Sunday. State television showed families in the southwestern province of Yunnan milling about bonfires and sleeping in large tents fashioned from construction tarps. Startled residents poured out of their homes when an earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale struck Yao'an County, about 100 km (60 miles) northwest of provincial capital Kunming, at 6:00 a.m. on Saturday. About 90 minutes later, a more powerful 6.5-level quake struck, bringing down 10,000 mostly wood and brick homes, the China Youth Daily said. Four people died and 400 were injured, 29 of them seriously, it said. "If the 6.5-level earthquake had struck first, losses would probably have been far more severe," it said. An official at the local earthquake emergency centre in the Yao'an said updated information was hard to come by. "We're having trouble with communications, so it is difficult to gather new information," he said. Provincial vice-governor Li Hanbo had led soldiers to the affected region, and the Red Cross Society in Hong Kong was scheduled to transport $24,000 worth of tents, quilts and rice, Xinhua news agency said. Supplies from other Red Cross chapters in China were currently sufficient, Xinhua said. CHOKING ON DUST, BURIED IN BRICKS Victims in the mountain village of Guantun, at the epicentre of the earthquakes, said it was a terrifying experience. "Several women and children were frightened to the point of tears and people were choked by the flying dust," Xinhua quoted witnesses in Guantun as saying. A pregnant woman buried under rubble was rescued and promptly had a Caesarean section delivery, state television said, showing images of the woman and her infant swaddled in quilts. Yunnan province had suffered more than a dozen powerful earthquakes, killing close to 20,000 people, since the 1949 founding of the People's Republic, Xinhua said. In the most dramatic case, a tremor measuring 7.7 hit Tonghai County on January 5, 1970, killing 15,621. The devastation, which struck in amid the tumultuous 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution, was covered up until a special report appeared in a state-owned newspaper this month.