According to the US Institute of Geophysics, a 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck Qinghai province in northeast China today, hours after the first earthquake that killed at least two people in the country’s southwest.
According to the US Geophysics Institute (US Geological Survey).
The first estimate was that the magnitude was 7.4, but later the USGS changed it to 7.3.
This Chinese province is located on the Tibet plateau.
In 2010, a 6.9 magnitude earthquake in Qinghai killed or went missing at least 3,000.
Even today, a 6.1 magnitude earthquake that struck southwestern Yunnan province proved that at least two people died and 17 were injured, according to (USGS).
The earthquake hit at 21:48, locals (14:48 in Lisbon), with the epicenter near the city of Dali, a popular tourist destination, at a depth of 10 kilometers, added the same source.
The China Earthquake Monitoring Center said the quake came after “a series of minor earthquakes” less than an hour earlier.
Yunnan is very vulnerable to earthquakes due to the collision of tectonic plates from India and Eurasia that form the vast Himalayan mountain range.
In 2020, a magnitude 5 earthquake in the same province killed four and injured 23, according to the Chinese center.
In October 2014, hundreds of people were injured and more than 100,000 were evacuated following a magnitude 6.0 earthquake in the same region, near China’s border with Myanmar (formerly Burma) and Laos.
China is regularly hit by earthquakes, especially in the west and southwest.
In 2008, China’s worst 7.9 earthquake struck the mountainous western Sichuan province, north of Yunan, killing nearly 90,000 people.
In 2003, another 6.8 magnitude earthquake killed 268 people in Xinjiang, also causing significant property damage.
