A villager points at the broken roof of his house after an earthquake measuring 5.1 degrees on the Richter scale jolted Wen'an County, north China's Hebei Province at 11:56 AM July 4. The quake was a shallow-focus one, with its epicenter being around 110 kilometers from Beijing and about 80 kilometers from Tianjin. No casualty was reported at press time.

A villager points at a shaken wall in a local school after the earthquake.

Villagers flee their houses and take refuge outside.

A woman points at the rifts on the wall of a village school.

A shaken wall of a local school is shown in this picture taken after the earthquake.

(China Daily July 5, 2006)