四川发生强烈地震

BEIJING -- A major earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale jolted Wenchuan County of southwest China\\\'s Sichuan Province at 2:28 p.m. Monday, the State Seismological Bureau said, revising a previous figure of 7.6.
中国国家地震局宣布，中国西南省份四川所属汶川县于周一下午二时二十八分发生里氏七点八级地震，该局修正了稍前里氏七点六级的说法。

The epicenter of the quake was located 31.0 degrees north latitude and 103.4 degrees east longitude, the bureau said.
该局还说，震中位于北纬三十一度，东经一百零三点四度。

With a population of 111,800, Wenchuan lies in southeast part of the Tibetan-Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of Aba, 146 km to the northwest of Chengdu, provincial capital of Sichuan.
汶川位于阿坝自治州东南部，西北方的四川省会成都距离该县一百四十六公里，该县目前有十一万八千人口。

An earthquake measuring 3.9 on the Richter scale jolted Tongzhou District in east Beijing at 2:35 p.m. Monday. The quake\\\'s epicenter was located 39.8 north latitude and 116.8 east longitude, according to the State Seismological Bureau.
国家地震局还公布，周一下午两点三十五分，北京东部的通州区发生里氏三点九级地震，震中位于北纬三十九点八度，东经一百一十六点八度。

Xinhua reporters in many other parts of China also reported tremors.
据新华社报道，中国其他地区亦有震感

A retiree in Leshan, a city of the southwestern Sichuan Province, said via telephone that a wall in her garden collapsed, while a repairman in Chongqing saw the ceiling of his factory shamble and alarmed the staff, who soon left the building.
四川西南部城市乐山市的一名退休老人在电话中声称，她花园的一堵围墙倒塌了，随后重庆的一名修理工看到他所在工厂的天花板在颤动，随后他立即离开了该建筑物。

In Shanghai, people were evacuated from office buildings in Hongqiao and Nanjing Road.
Mobile phones in Chengdu and Chongqing could not be reached for a while on Monday afternoon.
在上海，人们从虹桥路和南京路的写字间中撤离。周一下午，成都和重庆市的移动电话暂时中断。

No casualty was reported yet.
暂时没有伤亡报道。