Footage launched by way of Chinese language state broadcaster CCTV captured the instant a 6.1-magnitude earthquake hit a Chinese language college within the southwestern province of Sichuan.
Dozens of panicked schoolchildren have been noticed ducking beneath their desks ahead of temporarily working out of the study room with their fingers over their heads.
The China Earthquake Networks Heart stated the primary quake, in Ya’an’s Lushan county, struck at a intensity of 17km.
A 2d quake adopted, measuring 4.5 in magnitude, which killed no less than 4 and left 14 others injured.
Sichuan is a earthquake-prone space. The most recent crisis known as into reminiscence an 8.0-magnitude quake which hit Wenchuan county on northwest Sichuan in 2008.
