At least five dead in SW China quake

At least five people died and more than 20,000 houses collapsed or were damaged in an earthquake that jolted southwest China's Yunnan and Guizhou Provinces, government sources said.

The earthquake hit the border area of Yiliang county of Yunnan and Weining county of Guizhou at 11:19 a.m. and the depth of its epicenter was

about 14 km at 27.5 degrees north latitude and 104.0 degrees east longitude, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC).