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Earthquake hits Yushu

AN earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale jolted Nangchen County in the Tibetan autonomous prefecture of Yushu yesterday afternoon, the China Earthquake Networks Center said.

The epicenter was monitored at 32.4 degrees north latitude and 95.9 degrees east longitude with a depth of 10 kilometers, the center said on its website.

A fresh 3.1-magnitude aftershock hit Nangchen County four minutes after the 5.2-magnitude quake struck at 3:48pm yesterday, according to the center.

No casualties have been reported so far, said Wen Guodong, vice secretary of the prefectural committee of the Communist Party of China. "We felt the quake strongly in Nangchen, but near our office we haven't found any collapsed buildings," said Drimi Lhundrup, deputy chief of the county government.

The county is about 185 kilometers south of Gyegu Town, the seat of the Yushu prefectural government in northwest China's Qinghai Province, which was the epicenter of the 7.1-magnitude earthquake that struck in April 2010.

The quake last year killed nearly 2,700 people in Yushu, a region with a population of 350,000, and flattened Gyegu, leaving more than 100,000 residents homeless.

A 31.65 billion yuan (US$4.86 billion) rebuilding plan began in Yushu on June 20 last year.



 

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