Hundreds of homes flattened in China quake

A shallow 5.5-magnitude earthquake hit southwest China yesterday, causing 700 homes to collapse and leaving 20 people injured, state media said.
The quake struck a rural area in the southwestern province of Yunnan on Sunday afternoon, damaging a further 2,500 houses, but there were no reported fatalities, according to state-run news agency Xinhua.
The quake's epicentre was just nine kilometres (5.6 miles) beneath the surface, Xinhua said.