BEIJING — Not less than 111 individuals had been killed in a magnitude 6.2 earthquake in a mountainous area in northwestern China, the nation’s state media reported on Tuesday.
The official Xinhua Information Company mentioned that 100 individuals died within the province of Gansu and one other 11 within the neighboring province of Qinghai within the quake, which occurred simply earlier than midnight on Monday.
Greater than 200 individuals had been injured, Xinhua mentioned, 96 in Gansu and 124 in Qinghai. The quake struck in Gansu’s Jishishan county, about 5 kilometers (3 miles) from the provincial boundary with Qinghai.
The U.S. Geological Survey put the quake’s magnitude at 5.9.
State broadcaster CCTV reported that there was injury to water and electrical energy traces, in addition to transportation and communications infrastructure.
The earthquake was felt in Lanzhou, the Gansu provincial capital, the place college college students rushed out of their dorms, in response to a social media put up that had photos exhibiting younger individuals standing exterior.
Tents, folding beds and quilts had been being despatched to the catastrophe space, CCTV mentioned. It quoted Chinese language chief Xi Jinping as calling for an all-out search and rescue effort to reduce the casualties.
