2 Quakes Rock China, Killing at Least 2 Tourists, 45,000 Tourists Evacuated

Tourists wait to be evacuated after an earthquake in Jiuzhaigou in China's southwestern Sichuan province on August 9, 2017. China on August 9 evacuated tens of thousands people in its mountainous southwest after a strong earthquake killed at least 19 people and rattled a region where memories of a 2008 seismic disaster remain fresh. / AFP PHOTO / STR / China OUT Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images

JIUZHAIGOU, China—A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck a remote, mountainous part of China’s southwestern province of Sichuan, killing 19 people, including eight tourists, and injuring 247, provincial officials and state media said on Wednesday.

The quake hit a sparsely populated area 120 miles northwest of the city of Guangyuan late on Tuesday at a depth of 6 miles, the U.S. Geological Survey said. It was also close to the Jiuzhaigou nature reserve, a tourist destination.

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