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The epicenter of the quake was located at 31.0 degrees north latitude and 103.4 degrees east longitude, the bureau said.
With a population of 111,800, Wenchuan lies in the southeast part of the Tibetan-Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of Aba, 146 kilometers northwest of Chengdu, the provincial capital of Sichuan.
Wenchuan is home to the Wolong Nature Reserve, China's leading research and breeding base for endangered giant pandas.
Reporters in Chengdu said they saw cracks on the walls of some residential buildings in the downtown area, but no building collapsed.
People complained they were unable to complete calls on either fixed lines or cell phones.
Aftershocks were felt in Chengdu within hours after the earthquake.
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Cracks were seen in the walls of some buildings.
The local radio station in Chengdu quoted witnesses as saying that some houses collapsed in Dujiangyan.Many parts of China, even the remote southern island province of Hainan, felt the quake.
A major earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale jolted Wenchuan County in southwest China's Sichuan Province at 2:28 pm Monday, the State Seismological Bureau said.
The epicenter of the quake was located at 31.0 degrees north latitude and 103.4 degrees east longitude, the bureau said.
With a population of 111,800, Wenchuan lies in the southeast part of the Tibetan-Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of Aba, 146 kilometers northwest of Chengdu, the provincial capital of Sichuan.
Wenchuan is home to the Wolong Nature Reserve, China's leading research and breeding base for endangered giant pandas.
Reporters in Chengdu said they saw cracks on the walls of some residential buildings in the downtown area, but no building collapsed.
People complained they were unable to complete calls on either fixed lines or cell phones. (May 15,2008)
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