7.1-magnitude quake hits China's Qinghai Province
BEIJING. April 14. KAZINFORM A 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit northwest China's Qinghai Province early on Wednesday, the China Earthquake Networks Center said.
There have been casualties and house collapses, said residents and witnesses near the epicenter in the Yushu County, Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu.
"As far as I know, there have been human casualties," said Karsum Nyima, deputy director of the News Department of the Yushu TV.
"I saw the roof of a Buddhist pagoda in a park collapsed," he said.
The houses here are almost all made of wood and earthen walls. Some collapsed when the quake happened," he said.
But no official statistics have been released.
The quake struck the Yushu County at 7:49 a.m. with a depth of about 33 km. The epicenter is calculated to be 33.1 north and 96.7 east, the China Earthquake Networks Center reported.
Three aftershocks have been reported so far, Kazinform refers to China Daily.
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