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Published: 08 January 2022
Edit: Ahmed Al-Kumi
According to a source at the Euro - Mediterranean Earthquake Monitoring Centre, today a 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck Qinghae in northern China, explaining that the epicenter of the earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 kilometers.
The American Institute of Geophysics also reported that the earthquake shook the remote province of Qinghae, northwest of China, noting that it had been identified at a depth of 10 kilometers, and 140 kilometers northwest of Xinying.
It should be noted that last week, 22 people were injured by a 5.4 magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale that hit areas in the southwest. "China," including the tourist city of Lijiang, as announced by the authorities, and the earthquake at the border between Yunnan and Sichuan provinces, according to the United States Geological Survey Centre, at a depth of 38 kilometres. The Earthquake Monitoring Department reported that there were still no reports of damage to homes, while the authorities sent a search and rescue team of 60 elements to the affected areas.