An earthquake of magnitude 5.3 shook the western Chinese area of Xinjiang this Thursday, with no casualties or materials harm reported to this point.
The earthquake was recorded at 06:23 native time (00:38 on Thursday in Spain), with its epicenter situated 10 kilometers deep, reported the China Seismological Networks Center.
The earthquake affected the city of Akqi, belonging to the Kyrgyz prefecture of Kizilsu, bordering Kyrgyzstan.
It is an space of low inhabitants density: Akqi County has little greater than 44,000 inhabitants unfold over 11,500 sq. kilometers.
Last January, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake shook the neighboring prefecture of Aksu, leaving three victims and harm to properties and infrastructure.
Western China (the place the autonomous areas of Tibet and Xinjiang are situated, and provinces corresponding to Gansu or Qinghai) incessantly suffers from these earthquakes, as a result of it’s situated close to the place the place They rub the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates within the Himalayas.
