After being buried in debris for more than 30 hours, a dog in a quake-hit village in Gansu province miraculously survived and was rescued by his owner and other helpers on Tuesday.

The dog, about 18 months old, is named Xiaohuang, or Little Yellow, because of the color of its fur, said its owner, Zhang Shesheng, who lives in Yongxing village of Minxian county, the region that was hardest hit by Monday's magnitude-6.6 quake.

Xiaohuang was chained to a wooden post in one of Zhang's two storage rooms, which collapsed on the dog.