China quake kills two, injures 100 A SHALLOW earthquake has hit a mountainous area of southwest China, killing at least two people and injuring about 100, the official Xinhua news agency reported. The US Geological Survey (USGS) said the earthquake today had a magnitude of 5.5 and struck the border of the provinces of Sichuan and Yunnan just before 4pm local time (6pm AEST), at a depth of just 9.3km.