GUIYANG, March 30-- A woman was injured when a 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck Jianhe County in southwest China's Guizhou Province on Monday morning.

The woman from Xinliu Village, Nanjia Township was hit by falling tiles and is receiving treatment in a local hospital.

More than 13,000 residents of 2,200 households in Jianhe were affected by the quake, according to the provincial civil affairs department.

Thousands of rooms were damaged, but there have been no reports of houses collapsing or livestock deaths.

In the worst-hit Nanjia Township, roads were damaged but traffic is moving. Communication and power supply in the county is operating as normal.

Xinliu Primary School, which is close to Nanjia, suspended classes.

The quake, which was Guizhou's biggest in terms of magnitude since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, hit at 9:47 a.m. at 26.6 degrees north latitude and 108.8 degrees east longitude with a depth of 7.0 km, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.

The most recent fatal earthquake in the province occurred in January, 2010. The 3.4-magnitude quake killed six people and injured nine others in the border area of Guanling, Zhenning and Zhenfeng counties.

A 6.5-magnitude earthquake hit Ludian County of neighboring Yunnan Province on Aug. 3, 2014, claiming more than 600 lives and destroying over 80,000 homes.