Strong quake hits China's Qinghai province | Inquirer News

Strong quake hits China’s Qinghai province

/ 03:59 AM January 08, 2022

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BEIJING, China — A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 struck China’s remote northwestern Qinghai province early Saturday, the US Geological Survey said.

The epicenter of the quake, which struck at about 1:45 am (1745 GMT) at a shallow depth of 10 kilometers (six miles), was located about 140 kilometers north-northwest of the city of Xining, US seismologists said.

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A 5.1-magnitude aftershock followed about 25 minutes later, USGS said.

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The China Earthquake Networks Center put the magnitude at 6.9, according to the state news agency Xinhua.

“There is a low likelihood of casualties,” USGS said in its assessment of the quake, adding that there however was a likelihood of “significant damage.”

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The US agency warned that “the population in this region resides in structures that are highly vulnerable to earthquake shaking, though some resistant structures exist.”

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The sparsely populated province is spread across the Tibetan plateau.

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In 2010, a 6.9-magnitude quake in Qinghai left 3,000 people dead or missing.

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