PANZHIHUA, SICHUAN, Aug. 30 (Xinhua)-- An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale hit Panzhihua City in southwestern China's Sichuan Province on Saturday afternoon.

The quake struck at 4:30 pm Saturday (Beijing time). The epicenter was about 50 km southeast of the city's downtown area, at 26.2 degrees north latitude and 101.9 degrees east longitude with a depth of 10 km, the National Seismograph Network Center said.

There were no reports of casualties.

On May 12, a 7.9 magnitudeearthquake in Sichuan province killed nearly 70,000 people and left 5 million homeless.
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