Quake of 5.0 jolts area of China's Sichuan badly hit in May disaster
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Special report: Reconstruction After Earthquake
BEIJING, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- A 5.0-magnitude earthquake jolted Qingchuan County, Sichuan Province, southwest China, on Wednesday, the latest aftershock from the deadly May 12 earthquake that left more than 80,000 people dead or missing and made millions of people homeless.
The earthquake occurred in Qingchuan, Guangyuan City, at 02:53 a.m., at 32.6 north and 105.4 east and at a depth of 15 km, according to the national seismological monitoring network.
No casualties and or damage have been reported so far.
Qingchuan was one of the worst-hit areas in the May quake. Wenchuan, another county in Sichuan, was the epicenter.