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China’s finance ministry and emergency management ministry jointly allocated 200m yuan (£22.1m) for the earthquake-hit Gansu and Qinghai provinces, CCTV reported.
The men were sentenced to five days in detention. China’s last earthquake with a higher death count was in 2014 in southwestern Yunnan Province, where 617 people died.
An overnight earthquake killed at least 118 people in a cold and mountainous region in northwestern China, provincial officials said Tuesday, in the nation’s deadliest quake in 10 years.
The China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC) gave a slightly higher reading of 6.2 magnitude. The epicenter is located close to the border between Gansu and Qinghai, a mountainous region on the ...
A version of this article appears in print on Dec. 20, 2023, Section A, Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: Survivors Face Subzero Cold After Earthquake Kills Over 120 in Rural China ...
The earthquake struck at a relatively shallow depth of 6 miles in Gansu’s Jishishan county, about three miles from the provincial boundary with Qinghai, the China Earthquake Networks Center said.
Earthquakes are fairly common in China, especially in the country's seismically active southwest. An 8.0-magnitude quake in 2008 in Sichuan's Wenchuan county left tens of thousands dead and caused ...
Countries with the most earthquakes are often located near the boundaries of tectonic plates, where seismic activity is most ...
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China evacuates 283,000 people and cancels flights in Shanghai - Co-May's landfall in port city of Zhoushan was followed by ...