A woman waits by her sleeping child, who she moved outside early Tuesday after an earthquake struck Qiaojia county in Southwest China’s Yunnan province.

A restaurant worker takes in the damaged street Tuesday in Qiaojia.

Elementary school students sleep outside after being moved from their classrooms following the earthquake.

Rubble litters a street in Qiaojia after the quake.

Rescue workers in charge of the telecommunications network examine an optical cable. The quake disrupted 10 telecom base stations in the area, state media reported.

Rescue workers head to Qiaojia.