Quake-hit China's Qinghai Province

Quake-hit China's Qinghai Province

YUSHU, China - People walk near rubble from buildings destroyed by a strong earthquake in Jieguzhen in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in the western Chinese province of Qinghai on April 16, 2010.

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