BEIJING — At least 111 individuals have 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 News Agency 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.
More than 200 individuals have 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 line with a social media put up that had photographs displaying younger individuals standing outdoors.
Tents, folding beds and quilts have been being despatched to the catastrophe space, CCTV mentioned. It quoted Chinese chief Xi Jinping as calling for an all-out search and rescue effort to attenuate the casualties.
