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4:34Now PlayingAt least 118 people were killed and more than 500 were left injured after a 6.2 magnitude earthquake hit northwestern China late Monday.The quake, China's deadliest in more than decade, struck Gansu's Jishishan county at 11:59 p.m. local time on Monday. Its epicenter was 102 kilometers (63 miles) west-southwest of Gansu's provincial capital city, Lanzhou, according to the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC). It struck at a depth of 35 kilometers.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged an "all-out" search and rescue effort to minimize casualties. The quake claimed 105 lives in the province of Gansu and another 13 in the neighboring province of Qinghai, according to the official Xinhua news agency. Early on Tuesday, another earthquake of magnitude 5.5 struck China's northwestern Xinjiang region, the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC) said.
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