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Facing the aftershocks

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On Monday, a 6.6 magnitude earthquake with its epicenter in Luding county rocked Sichuan province.
What we know so far:

At the time of writing, some 65 people are known to have died with several hundred injured.
Tremors were also felt in the provincial capital Chengdu, where a strict COVID lockdown...