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However, the ministry later denied issuing the figure, apparently because it had been issued without permission. Other government offices in Beijing and the afflicted province, Yunnan, refused to answer questions about the quake, effectively imposing a news blackout...
...quake was centered in Yunnan's heavily forested Lancang and Menglian counties, about 240 miles southwest of the provincial capital of Kunming and just inside the border with Burma...
...Yunnan, with a land area nearly as large as California, has a population of more than 34 million. Lahus in the province number about 300,000. Lancang's population is about...
...quake measuring 5.0 occurred October 15 in southern Yunnan, which is hit frequently by earth tremors, but there were no reports of casualties...
Seismologists said they did not know if the Yunnan quakes were related to a powerful temblor that hit far western China on Saturday...