![Two girls play outside makeshift houses in Ruili of Southwest China's Yunnan Province aftert three earthquakes measuring 4.9, 4.3 and 4.0 on the Richter scale hit Southwest China on December 26, 2008. The earthquakes have left 19 wounded and 49,789 affected. [Xinhua]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20081227/000cf1a487730abfe6854f.jpg "Two girls play outside makeshift houses in Ruili of Southwest China's Yunnan Province aftert three earthquakes measuring 4.9, 4.3 and 4.0 on the Richter scale hit Southwest China on December 26, 2008. The earthquakes have left 19 wounded and 49,789 affected. [Xinhua]") |
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Two girls play outside makeshift houses in Ruili of Southwest China's Yunnan Province aftert three earthquakes measuring 4.9, 4.3 and 4.0 on the Richter scale hit Southwest China on December 26, 2008. The earthquakes have left 19 wounded and 49,789 affected. [Xinhua]
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Residents in the county seat rushed out their homes but most had returned, he said.
Officials dispatched by the provincial earthquake administration were on the way to Luodian.
The county, located in southern Guizhou, is mostly populated with ethnic minorities of Buyi and Miao.
In the neighboring Yunnan Province, nineteen people were injured and thousands were affected in two earthquakes measuring 4.3 and 4.9 on the Richter scale early Friday.
