Yunnan and Qinghai hit by earthquakes By ZHAO YIMENG in Beijing and LI YINGQING in Kunming | China Daily | Updated: 2021-05-24 09:14 Share CLOSE Students from Yangbi No 1 High School study outdoors at a disaster relief center in Yangbi, Yunnan province, on Sunday. They were preparing for the national college entrance exam, which will take place in about two weeks. CAO BOYUAN/FOR CHINA DAILY
Authorities send relief supplies, rescue and medical teams to two provinces
Earthquakes that rattled the provinces of Yunnan and Qinghai over the weekend left three people dead and dozens injured.
The three deaths were reported in Yunnan, in southwestern China, after a 6.4 magnitude quake and aftershocks struck the Yangbi Yi autonomous county in Dali Bai autonomous prefecture from 9:48 pm to 11 pm on Friday. At least 32 people were injured.
BEIJING: A series of strong earthquakes rattled northwest and southwest China, leaving at least two people dead, local officials and seismologists said early on Saturday.Both Qinghai province in the northwest on the Tibetan plateau and Yunnan province in southwestern China are areas prone to earthquakes. And both tremors were shallow, meaning they generally.
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(Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 6.6 struck off the northwest coast of Indonesia’s Sumatra island on Friday, the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said.
The quake was at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles), GFZ said.
Indonesia’s weather and geophysics agency, BMKG, put the quake at 7.2 magnitude and at a depth of 19 km but said it had no potential to trigger a tsunami wave.
On Dec. 26, 2004, a 9.1 magnitude quake off the coast of northwest Sumatra triggered a tsunami that killed more than 230,000 people in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand and nine other countries.
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