On Tuesday morning, two more earthquakes, measuring 4.9 and 4.5, hit near Shidian county, about 1,000 km southwest of Yiliang, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.

The tremors injured six people and at least 86,000 people were affected as of Tuesday afternoon, authorities said.

About the broadcaster:

Rosie Tuck is a copy editor at the China Daily website. She was born in New Zealand and graduated from Auckland University of Technology with a Bachelor of Communications studies majoring in journalism and television. In New Zealand she was working as a junior reporter for the New Zealand state broadcaster TVNZ. She is in Beijing on a 2017 Pacific Media Centre international internship with the AUT/China Daily Exchange Programme, in partnership with the Asia New Zealand Foundation. She is working as a journalist in the English news department at the China Daily website.

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