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Earthquake in northwestern China kills at least 118 people in nation’s deadliest quake in a decade
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0:35Now PlayingAn 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.
Emergency authorities in Gansu province issued an appeal for 300 additional workers to comb through collapsed buildings and for other search and rescue operations. Officials in neighboring Qinghai reported 20 people missing in a landslide, according to Chinese state-owned media.
The magnitude 6.2 earthquake left more than 500 people injured, severely damaged houses and roads, and knocked out power and communication lines, provincial officials and media reports said.
It struck just before midnight on Monday near the boundary between the two provinces at a relatively shallow depth of 10 6 miles, the China Earthquake Networks Center said.
The U.S. Geological Survey measured the magnitude at 5.9.
By mid-morning, 105 people had been confirmed dead in Gansu and another 397 injured, including 16 in critical condition, a provincial emergency department official said at a news conference.
Thirteen others were killed and 182 injured in Qinghai in an area north of the epicenter, a local Communist Party official said at a separate news conference.
The earthquake was felt in much of the surrounding area, including Lanzhou, the Gansu provincial capital, about 60 miles northeast of the epicenter.
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