M5.0 earthquake strikes western China

A magnitude 5.0 earthquake struck China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Qazinform News Agency reports.

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According to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC), the epicenter was located in Kuqa County, Aksu Prefecture, in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20 kilometers.

There have been no immediate reports of casualties or damage.

Earlier, it was reported that an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.4 struck Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, with its epicenter located 324 kilometers from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.