A magnitude-5.5 quake hit Southwest China's Yunnan province on Sunday, injuring at least 30 and damaging thousands of homes.

The quake struck Eryuan county in Dali city, the capital of the Bai autonomous prefecture, at 1:41 pm, with its epicenter 9 kilometers deep.

By 7 pm, more than 2,500 houses were known to have been damaged and 700 others had collapsed, but no fatalities had been reported.