CHENGDU -- A 4.9-magnitude earthquake struck Hongyuan county in Southwest China's Sichuan province early Monday morning, according to local authorities. The earthquake occurred at 5:07 am, with its ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — Gordy's Sichuan Cafe on Spokane's South Hill is closing its doors. According to the restaurant on Facebook, it will be open for the rest of Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

This area, as indeed much of southwestern China, is sadly earthquake prone. Its magnificent scenery is related to plate tectonics. This includes, of course, Mount Qomolangma and its neighboring super ...

At least 126 people were killed in Tibet by this week's earthquake of magnitude 6.8, the fifth-deadliest since 2008, data from China's National Earthquake Data Center shows.

BEIJING - At least 126 people were killed in Tibet by this week's earthquake ... Sichuan, Qinghai and Yunnan, especially on the edges of the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau above the plate boundaries ...

Since then, a series of other earthquakes have struck the region, including a magnitude 5.5 quake in Qinghai Province and a magnitude 3.1 tremblor in Sichuan ... the Indian Plate and the Eurasian ...

The AP reports that a 5.8-magnitude earthquake hit a mountainous area of Southwest China killing ...

In May 2008, a 7.9 earthquake in Sichuan province in the southwest killed nearly 90,000 people. The collapse of schools and other buildings led to a yearslong effort to rebuild using more quake ...

(AP Photo/Andy Wong, File) FILE -A portrait of Mao Zedong near writing commemorating Chinese ancestors is displayed on a wall damaged by earthquake near Shangli town in southwestern China’s Sichuan ...

China: Documentary filmmaker Chen Pinlin sentenced to three and a half years for covering historic protests against censorship Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled by the three-and-a-half-year ...