No injuries reported after moderate 5.7-magnitude earthquake rattles northwest China
May 29th, 2010 - 3:28 pm ICT by BNO NewsGYEGU, CHINA (BNO NEWS) — A moderate earthquake rattled northwest China on Saturday morning, seismologists said, but there were no reports of damage or casualties.
The 5.7-magnitude earthquake at 10.29 a.m. local time (0229 GMT) was centered about 80 kilometers (50 miles) west-northwest of Gyegu, a town in the Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of China’s Qinghai province. It struck about 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) deep, making it a shallow earthquake, according to the China Earthquake Network Center.
The earthquake was felt strongly in Gyegy, said Xu Chuanjie, head of the emergency rescue section at the provincial earthquake bureau, but there were no reports of damage or casualties.
Liu Jie, director of the quake forecast center at the China Earthquake Network, told the state-run Xinhua news agency that the earthquake was an aftershock to the 7.1-magnitude earthquake that struck the region on April 14.
The U.S. Geological Survey, however, was not able to confirm if the earthquake was in fact an aftershock. A geophysicist at the agency said there were many seismic faults in the area, and that it would be difficult to say if it is indeed an aftershock.
The earthquake in April killed more than 2,220 people and left more than 12,000 others injured.
- Strong aftershock jolts Tibet's Yushu area - Jun 04, 2010
- Strong quake rocks China-Myanmar border region, casualties unknown - Mar 10, 2011
- Strong, deep earthquake hits below China-Russia border region - May 11, 2011
- 400 killed, 10,000 injured in China earthquake (Fourth Lead) - Apr 14, 2010
- At least 19 dead, 168 injured injured after quake devastates SW China county - Mar 10, 2011
- Strong earthquake strikes off Japan, felt in Tokyo - Nov 30, 2010
- Strong earthquake hits far off Guam, no threat to land - Aug 19, 2010
- Strong 6.2-magnitude earthquake hits off Papua New Guinea - Jun 02, 2010
- Strong earthquake strikes off the Vanuatu Islands, no damage expected - Jan 09, 2011
- Moderate earthquake destroys homes, injures dozens in northwest China - Aug 12, 2011
- Strong earthquake strikes Russia's Far East near border with China - Oct 14, 2011
- Moderate 5.7-magnitude earthquake shakes Puerto Rico - May 16, 2010
- Light earthquake hits off the coast of Oregon - Apr 09, 2010
- Strong earthquake hits deep underneath northern Argentina - May 29, 2012
- Moderate aftershock to April earthquake shakes U.S.-Mexico border - Sep 14, 2010
Tags: aftershock, april 14, bno, casualties, china earthquake, emergency rescue, forecast center, geophysicist, kilometers, magnitude earthquake, moderate earthquake, northwest china, saturday morning, seismic faults, seismologists, shallow earthquake, tibetan autonomous prefecture, u s geological survey, west northwest, xinhua news agency