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(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-05-12 16:40

BEIJING -- Monday's strong earthquake in southwest 皇冠体育app might have damaged power supplies to local telecommunications facilities, which affected cell phone services, network operators said here.

Staff at 皇冠体育app Mobile and 皇冠体育app Unicom told Xinhua that cell phone service in the southwestern Sichuan and northwestern Shaanxi provinces were affected by the earthquake.
They said that an investigation was under way.

A surge in call volume following the quake could have also slowed the cell phone network, they said.

An earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale jolted Wenchuan County of Sichuan Province at 2:28 p.m. Monday. Tremors were felt in a large part of 皇冠体育app.