A 5.3 magnitude earthquake struck the western Chinese region of Xinjiang this Saturday No casualties or material damage have been reported so far.
The tremor occurred at 6:58 local time (5:58 pm on Friday) and affected Aheqi county, in Kizilsu prefecture, bordering Kyrgyzstan, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.
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The epicenter of the movement, ten kilometers deep, was located at 41.12 degrees north latitude and 78.54 degrees east longitude, the institution indicated.
On January 30, another earthquake was recorded in the same area, in that case with a magnitude of 5.7.
Furthermore, on January 23, the neighboring county of Wushi, also bordering Kyrgyzstan, recorded a magnitude 7.1 earthquake that resulted in three deaths and material damage, which was followed by another tremor, of magnitude 5.6, on January 26. January.
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The fact that it was a sparsely populated area made it possible for the number of victims to remain low. despite the force of the tremors.
On December 18, 2023, at least 151 people lost their lives in a 6.2 magnitude earthquake that shook the provinces of Gansu and Qinghai, in northwest China, also causing severe damage to infrastructure and destroying more than 200,000 homes. . .
The December earthquake was the deadliest recorded in the Asian country since what happened in August 2014 in the southern province of Yunnan, which caused 617 deaths.
EFE
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