Goes without saying that it's always sad to see deaths and injuries, I really did not mean to be cold hearted in that earlier statement. I think the disrepancy with magnitudes in this case is because of different seismic scales are being used. A 6.5Mw (moment magnitude quake is no joke either). I suspect the Chinese figures are of 7.0Ms (surface wave magnitude).

As to the suppression of data, China is one of the most strict regimes when it comes to witholding information. I think you meant that as a sarcastic note.

Being a party lead state and all.