Minor earthquake jolts N.China Province
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Updated: 2006-07-04 20:39 
Villagers flee their houses and take refuge outside as an earthquake
measuring 5.1 degrees on the Richter scale jolted Wen'an County, north China's
Hebei Province at 11:56 a.m. (Beijing Time) Tuesday, July 4, 2006. 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.
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