Beijing: a strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 hit the northwestern Qinghai province of China, Saturday, US geologic survey, US Geological Survey said.
The earthquake gup, which attacked around 1:45 a.m.
(1745 GMT) at a shallow depth of 10 kilometers (six miles), located about 140 kilometers north-northwest of Xining City, said Seismologist as.
Aftershock is 5.1 followed about 25 minutes later, said the USGS.
The center of the Chinese earthquake network placed 6.9, according to the Xinhua State News Agency.
“There is a possibility of low victims,” said the USGS in an earthquake assessment, adding that there was a possibility of “significant damage”.
The US body warned that “the population in this region was in a structure that was very vulnerable to the earthquake, although there were several resistant structures”.
Rarely populated provinces spread in the Tibetan plateau.
In 2010, an earthquake measuring 6.9 in Qinghai left 3,000 dead or lost.
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