Chinese state media reported a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck the Kyrgyzstan-Xinjiang border area on January 23 with studies of a number of accidents and collapsed homes.
According to the China Earthquake Administration, the quake’s epicentre is at a depth of twenty-two km within the mountainous border space of Wushi County in northwest China’s Xinjiang area.
However, the Xinjiang Earthquake Agency mentioned the epicentre is about 50 km from Wushi, with 5 villages inside a 20 km radius across the epicentre, Xinhua News reported.
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As of 8 a.m. (0000 GMT), 40 aftershocks have been recorded, in keeping with China Earthquake Networks Centre, quoted in Hindustan Times.
The earthquake was felt strongly in Urumqi, Korla, Kashgar, Yining, and surrounding areas, in keeping with netizens on China’s Weibo social media platform. Following the earthquake, the Xinjiang railway division instantly stopped operations and 27 trains have been reportedly affected by the earthquake, Xinhua mentioned.
Immediately after the tremors, emergency response providers have been activated by China’s Earthquake Administration at the side of the Office of the Earthquake Relief Headquarters and the Ministry of Emergency Management. They additionally dispatched a bunch to information native rescue efforts.
Several departments coordinated reduction efforts, offering cotton tents, coats, quilts, mattresses, folding beds, and heating stoves, Xinhua quoted China’s Ministry of Emergency Management as saying. Xinjiang has been struck by a couple of sizeable earthquakes over the previous 24 hours.
The emergency ministry reported the latest earthquake at a magnitude of 6.7 in close by Kazakhstan. People fled their homes and gathered exterior regardless of the chilly climate, some wearing pyjamas and slippers in Kazakhstan’s largest metropolis, Almaty. No harm has been reported.
The tremors, adopted by aftershocks about half-hour later, have been additionally felt in Uzbekistan.
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