Guiren was one of 40 villages, mostly in Shanxi province, that were severely damaged by the quakes.
A reporter at the Shanxi Daily, contacted by telephone, said 4,000 to 5,000 students took part and demanded a dialogue on corruption with the governor.
Students in the provincial capital of Taiyuan joined in the democracy movement for the first time Wednesday when thousands held sit-ins in front of a hotel and Shanxi provincial government offices.
Shanxi villagers seemed dazed and unsure about how to begin rebuilding. "We just hope that the earthquakes stop," Liu said.
On Saturday, floods inundated Fenyang county in northern Shanxi province.
Xinhua said only seven people survived the blast Sunday at the Shengfo mine in Huoxian County, Shanxi province.
The quakes, measuring from 5.0 up to 6.1 on the Richter scale, hit Shanxi and Hebei provinces, the official China Daily said Friday.
The People's Daily also reported today that a swindler in rural Shanxi province who defrauded business firms of $6.75 million was sentenced to life in prison.