Strong magnitude 7.1 earthquake strikes remote western China, state media says

[JacksinPA]

'Very strong' 7.1 magnitude quake in western China kills 3 as officials cite sparse population there

Officials say a magnitude 7.1 earthquake in a remote part of China’s western Xinjiang region has killed at least three people and caused extensive damage in freezing weather.

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BEIJING (AP) — A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck a remote part of China’s western Xinjiang region early Tuesday, state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.

Xinhua cited the China Earthquake Networks Center as saying the quake rocked Wushu county in Aksu prefecture shortly after 2 a.m. local time.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake occurred in the Tian Shan mountain range, “a seismically active region, though earthquakes of this size occur somewhat infrequently.” It said the largest quake in the area in the past century was a 7.1-magnitude one in 1978 about 200 kilometers to the north of one early Tuesday.

State broadcaster CCTV said there were several aftershocks since the main quake, registering up to 4.5 magnitude.

Tremors were felt as far away as the neighboring countries Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. In the Kazakh capital of Almaty, people left their homes, the Russian news agency Tass reported.
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Seven or above will rattle your tooth fillings.

 

[venice_ca]

'Very strong' 7.1 magnitude quake in western China kills 3 as officials cite sparse population there

Officials say a magnitude 7.1 earthquake in a remote part of China’s western Xinjiang region has killed at least three people and caused extensive damage in freezing weather.

apnews.com

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Seven or above will rattle your tooth fillings.

A quake registering in the mid-six range rattles a lot of things, and can bring down brick/block homes built without seismic reinforcements. Since the quake struck in early morning hours, most would have been at home. I hope there are few casualties.

 

[JacksinPA]

A quake registering in the mid-six range rattles a lot of things, and can bring down brick/block homes built without seismic reinforcements. Since the quake struck in early morning hours, most would have been at home. I hope there are few casualties.

The 1906 SF quake was 7.7-7.9. The Richter scale I think is a log or power scale, so that one was a lot bigger than this one in China.

 

[venice_ca]

The 1906 SF quake was 7.7-7.9. The Richter scale I think is a log or power scale, so that one was a lot bigger than this one in China.

Last year’s Moroccan earthquake was 6.8 and we saw the destruction that was caused — entire villages leveled.

 

[JacksinPA]

Last year’s Moroccan earthquake was 6.8 and we saw the destruction that was caused — entire villages leveled.

That part of China is very remote without modern building codes. Yak herders & commie politicos.

 

[Pyrite]

Earthquake On China-Kyrgyzstan Border

750 km

www.barrons.com

 

[Pyrite]

Strong magnitude 7.1 earthquake strikes remote western China, state media say

BEIJING (AP) — A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck a remote part of China’s western Xinjiang region early Tuesday, downing power lines, destroying at least two homes and prompting authorities to suspend trains, state media reported.

www.wral.com

...The earthquake struck in a rural area populated mostly by Uyghurs, a Turkic ethnicity that is predominantly Muslim and has been the target of a state campaign of forced assimilation and mass detention in recent years.

Uchturpan county at the quake's epicenter is recording temperatures well below zero, with lows of up to negative 18 degrees C (just below zero F) forecast by the China Meteorological Administration this week. Parts of northern and central China have shivered under frigid cold snaps this winter, with authorities closing schools and highways several times due to snowstorms....

Tremors were felt as far away as the neighboring countries Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. In the Kazakh capital of Almaty, people left their homes, the Russian news agency Tass reported....

An earthquake shook China's northwestern Gansu province in December, killing 151 people. It was the deadliest earthquake in China in nine years.

Most of China’s earthquakes strike in the western part of the country, including Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan and Yunnan provinces, as well as the Xinjiang region and Tibet.