Twenty-two people have been injured in a 5.5-magnitude earthquake that struck the county of Ninglang in southwest China’s Yunnan Province at 3:02 p.m. on Sunday (Beijing time), local authorities said. /news.sina.com/

The Yunnan provincial earthquake bureau has activated a Level III emergency response and sent a 23-member working team to the quake-hit region. /news.sina.com/

The epicenter was about 60 km away from the county seat of Ninglang in the city of Lijiang and 110 km from the Old Town of Lijiang, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The earthquake struck at a depth of 10 km. /cgtn/

As of 5:40 p.m., no deaths or collapsed buildings had been reported, said the county publicity department. /cgtn/

The power, telecommunications, roads and water conservancy facilities in the quake-hit areas are basically intact, it said. /cgtn/

Sources with the Ninglang publicity department said that a number of fallen tiles from village dwellings could be spotted at the scene. /hf-hm.com/