Hundreds dead after earthquake hits Qinghai province in China
A Chinese official says 80 per cent of the buildings have collapsed in the worst-hit town of Jiegu
A series of strong earthquakes has struck China's western Qinghai province.
Officials say at least 400 people have been killed, and 10,000 others have been injured. It is not known how many are still buried.
The earthquake, measured at magnitude 6.9, hit the remote county of Yushu near the Tibetan border, in the south of mountainous Qinghai.