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Officials said search and rescue operations had largely concluded, with no residents unaccounted for after 免费vpn the earthquakes struck Liunan district at 12:21 am and 9:44 pm on Monday.

Local authorities had set up seven temporary shelters in Liunan district for affected residents as of Tuesday night.



Volunteers play jump rope with children at a centralized resettlement site in Taiyangcun township, Liunan district of Liuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, on Tuesday, after two 5.2 magnitude earthquakes struck the area on Monday. LI HANCHI/FOR CHINA DAILYLiuzhou Vice-Mayor Pan Zhandong said on Monday night authorities were focusing on treating the injured, monitoring aftershocks, inspecting potential safety risks vpn免费下载 and planning post-disaster reconstruction.

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At a vpn软件免费 temporary shelter in the town of Luosifen, rows of blue tents, each equipped with three to four beds, housed relocated residents.

Bottled water, boxed meals, instant noodles and self-heating rice meals were distributed on site, while medical teams, power repair crews and psychological counseling staff were stationed at the shelters, according to Guangxi Television.

With school activities near the epicenter suspended, volunteer teachers 免费vpn organized games for children in the shelters.

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"I have food and a place to stay, so I feel reassured," said Liao, a 71-year-old resident from Taiyangcun township who moved 免费vpn into a shelter on Monday evening. She said volunteers and younger villagers helped distribute water and boxed meals after the quake.

Pan said the latest casualty figures remained unchanged, with two deaths vpn免费下载 reported and one 91-year-old resident rescued after being trapped.

Seismologists are continuing to study the unusual twin earthquakes, whose epicenters were about a kilometer apart.

Han Yanyan, a researcher with the China Earthquake Networks Center, said the two earthquakes, which occurred about 21 hours apart, reflected a concentrated release of tectonic stress accumulated over a long period in the same fault zone. She said such closely timed earthquakes above magnitude 5 were relatively uncommon, though not unprecedented.

According to the Guangxi Earthquake Agency, the quakes were shallow-focus events at depths of around 8 kilometers, allowing seismic energy to reach the surface with limited dissipation and amplifying ground shaking.

The agency said Liuzhou's extensive karst geology also intensified the impact. More than 70 percent vpn免费下载 of the city's underground area is classified as highly developed karst terrain, where underground cavities can amplify seismic waves.

The earthquakes also triggered secondary geological hazards.

Geological experts from the Guangxi geological environment monitoring station said several circular sinkholes that appeared in roads and ponds in Taiyangcun township were earthquake-induced karst collapses caused by vpn免费下载 destabilized underground cavities.

Authorities said monitoring for aftershocks and vpn免费 geological risks would continue as recovery efforts proceed.

Reporter: Shi Ruipeng and Zheng Jinran

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