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Since 1900, there have been three earthquakes of magnitude 6.0 or above, as measured by China, within a 120-mile radius of the Monday quake, state media said.

An overnight earthquake killed at least 118 people in a cold and mountainous region in northwestern China, provincial officials said Tuesday, in the nation’s deadliest quake in 10 years.

The earthquake struck at a relatively shallow depth of 6 miles in Gansu’s Jishishan county, about three miles from the provincial boundary with Qinghai, the China Earthquake Networks Center said.

China’s finance ministry and emergency management ministry jointly allocated 200m yuan (£22.1m) for the earthquake-hit Gansu and Qinghai provinces, CCTV reported.

The men were sentenced to five days in detention. China’s last earthquake with a higher death count was in 2014 in southwestern Yunnan Province, where 617 people died.

The China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC) gave a slightly higher reading of 6.2 magnitude. The epicenter is located close to the border between Gansu and Qinghai, a mountainous region on the ...

HAIDONG, China, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Braving sub-zero cold, rescuers on Wednesday pulled to safety victims of an earthquake that rocked a remote area in China's northwestern Gansu province, while ...

China’s worst earthquake since 2014 has caused a direct economic loss of 532 million yuan ($74.6 million) for a northwestern province that hosts the epicenter, the country’s state broadcaster ...