The death toll from Sunday's 6.5-magnitude earthquake in southwest China's Yunnan Province rose to 410 with 12 people missing, state-run Xinhua News Agency reported on Tuesday.
The powerful quake also left 2,373 people injured and necessitated the emergency evacuation of 230,000, said the provincial government, according to the report.
The quake, the strongest to hit the region in 14 years, struck at at 4:30 p.m. (0830 GMT) with its epicenter in Ludian county of Zhaotong city.
Nearly 80,000 rooms collapsed and 124,000 rooms were seriously damaged. Thousands of police, firefighters and soldiers have been mobilized for rescue efforts which are being made difficult by poor road conditions in the remote mountainous area. Ludian has a population of nearly 430,000. Zhaotong, about 300 km from Kunming, the capital city of Yunnan, is on the earthquake belt and has been occasionally jolted by quakes.
In September 2012, a 5.7-magnitude caused more than 80 deaths and injured more than 800 people. In 1974, a 7.1-magnitude earthquake in the same place caused over 1,400 deaths.