The border area of China's southwestern Sichuan and Yunnan provinces were hit with an earthquake leaving  eight people injured.

Moreover, the 4.9-magnitude quake, which occurred at 10:46 a.m. yesterday with an epicenter 6 km deep, toppled 72 houses and damaged 949 others in Yunnan's Qiaojia County, the county government said. In fact, the injured, including two people in serious condition, have been sent to local hospitals and that many people ran out of buildings when the quake came, but there was no falling debris. The shopping mall resumed business shortly after,  a mall shopper in the county said.  To say more, the rescue work is underway and local civil affairs authorities have dispatched relief materials such as tents and quilts to the area.

According to the China Earthquake Networks Center, this was not enough as the quake was followed by two more in Sichuan Province that both registered above magnitude 4 while also a 4.5-magnitude quake jolted Yibin City, Sichuan Province, at 3:55 p.m., and another 4.7-magnitude quake hit Mianyang City at 10:17 p.m.

As the matter of fact remains, casualties and damages from the two quakes are not yet known.

However advanced we may be, one has no control over nature!

(AW:Samrat Biswas)