Xinhua said more than 30,000 tourists at Jiuzhaigou were relocated to safety with help from tourist buses and private vehicles.
The quake killed at least 19 people and injured at least 263, 10 of them seriously, official news agency Xinhua quoted local officials as saying.
The Sichuan government said rescuers were gradually evacuating tourists and residents who had been cut off by landslides. The quake struck at a depth of 20 km, the center said in a statement.
The Sichuan quake was centred near Jiuzhaigou, a picturesque valley region designated as a national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site and which is famed for its striking scenery, karst rock formations, waterfalls and lakes. The Sichuan natural disaster administration measured the quake at a magnitude of 7.0.
Xinhua said strong tremors could be felt in Chengdu and other cities in the area.
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China's National Commission for Disaster Reduction, said as many as hundred people may have been killed and one hundred and thirty thousand homes damaged. The county also sent consultants to hotels, rural inns and streets to offer possible counselling service to tourists.
Rescue workers evacuating a man injured during a landslide at Gengdi village, in Puge county in China's Sichuan province, yesterday. Four people were also injured and one remains missing.
The magnitude-6.5 quake struck a region bordered by the provinces of Sichuan and Gansu at a depth of just 9 kilometers (5.5 miles), according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
It evoked memories of a massive 8.0-magnitude quake that devastated wide areas of the same region in 2008, leaving 87,000 people dead or missing in China's worst seismic disaster in a generation.
Shallow quakes tend to cause more surface damage. She and others had been performing in Jiuzhaigou when the quake struck. It said is suspending operations for the time being. Following the severe quake of 7 degrees in the Chinese province of Sichuan, the Russian Minister of Emergency Situations (MCHS) Vladimir Puchkov regretted the damages caused and assure that his country is willing to provide the necessary assistance.
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