CORRECTED - (OFFICIAL)-UPDATE 1-No quake damage at China foreign car plants

(Deletes reference to Volkswagen in first and sixth paragraphs after company official corrects information to say it has no stake in factory in Sichuan Province)

SHANGHAI/TOKYO, May 12 (Reuters) - Foreign car makers said their China operations were not damaged by a strong earthquake in southwestern China on Monday, although Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) said it had no word on its small joint venture facility in the region.

An earthquake of magnitude 7.8 in Sichuan Province killed five children and injured more than 100 people, while causing buildings to sway as far away as Shanghai and the Thai capital, Bangkok.

Suzuki Motor Corp (7269.T: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), which operates a car factory in Chongqing, near Sichuan, said the earthquake had no impact on its operations.

Staff at a Ford Motor (F.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) facility in Chongqing were briefly evacuated out of safety concerns but returned to work minutes later, China-based company spokesman Kenneth Hsu said.

"When the earthquake first hit, our staff were ordered to evacuate the plant for roughly 10 minutes, but they have returned to work now," he said.

Toyota Motor, which makes vehicles in a tie-up with China's FAW Group in Sichuan province, said it was not immediately clear on the situation at the facility.

"We are still trying to get in touch with our China plants. I don't have any information yet," a Toyota spokeswoman in China said.

General Motors GM.M, Nissan Motor (7201.T: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) and Honda Motor (7267.T: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) said their operations in China were not affected by the quake. (Reporting by Fang Yan in Shanghai, Nobuhiro Kubo and Chang-Ran Kim in Tokyo; Editing by Edmund Klamann)