Wenchuan rattled by minor aftershock

CHENGDU: A magnitude-4.8 earthquake yesterday afternoon jolted Wenchuan county in Sichuan province, the epicenter of last year's magnitude-8.0 earthquake.

The tremor, which lasted about 10 seconds, took place between Yingxiu town and Gengda township in Wenchuan. It was felt in parts of Chengdu and neighboring Chongqing municipality, officials from the Sichuan provincial and Chongqing seismological bureau said.

When the latest quake struck the area at 3:25 pm, Xiao Xie, a young public servant in the Wenchuan county committee of the Communist Party of China, was typing a document in front of his computer in his office on the fifth floor.