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At least 14 people are dead and 135 others have been injured after an earthquake struck a remote area of southwest China near the border with Burma.
The epicentre of the 5.4-magnitude quake, which struck at 12.58pm (1558 AEDT), was located 225km west-southwest of Dali in Yunnan province near the border of Burma, the US Geological Survey reported.
The quake hit at a depth of 34km, the USGS said, though Chinese seismologists put the depth at a shallow 10km.
An official at the local earthquake relief headquarters in Yingjiang county told AFP by telephone that authorities had so far counted 14 dead and 135 injured.
State television had earlier said more than 200 were hurt.
"Many houses" collapsed in the tremor, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported, citing local authorities.
Witnesses told the news agency that parts of a supermarket and hotel had caved in, and that people were buried in the debris.
The quake triggered power outages in Yingjiang county, Xinhua said, adding that three aftershocks had been registered.
Military personnel were en route to the scene, it said.
A massive earthquake rocked the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan in May 2008, leaving nearly 87,000 people dead or missing.
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