6.4-magnitude earthquake jolts NW China

XINING. August 28. KAZINFORM An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale struck remote Qinghai Province in northwest China at 9:52 a.m. Friday, the China Earthquake Administration said, but no casualties have been reported,  Kazinform cites Xinhuanet.

A total of 128 aftershocks had been registered by 11 a.m. near the epicenter in the Da Qaidam (also known as Dachaidan) district in the Mongolian-Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Haixi, with the strongest measuring 5.3 magnitudes that struck at 10:14, according to the Qinghai Provincial Seismological Network.

"Frequent aftershocks can still be felt here, but we have not received any reports of casualties," Li Daqing, deputy director of the Haixi Seismological Bureau, told Xinhua at about 3 p.m. at the Da Qaidam Township where the Da Qaidam District Administrative Committee seats, Kazinform refers to Xinhuanet.

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