87,000 China quake evacuees persevere in freezing cold weather

About 87,000 people evacuated from damaged houses in northwestern China following a major earthquake earlier this week have been struggling to cope with freezing weather, with the death toll from the disaster topping 130, local authorities and media reports said Wednesday.The 6.2 magnitude quake, which struck at around midnight Monday in Jishishan county of China's Gansu Province, injured some 1,000 people in the region and neighboring Qinghai, where at least a dozen residents remain missing.To keep evacuees warm as temperatures fell below minus 10 C, local authorities in Gansu have provide…READ FULL ARTICLE