China's Earthquake Networks Center
put the magnitude higher at 6.4. The tremor lasted one to two minutes... with a
rumbling noise," Ma Wulong, a Menyuan resident, told Xinhua. n
October 2014, hundreds of people were injured and more than 100,000 displaced
after a shallow 6.0 magnitude tremor hit Yunnan province, close to China's
borders with Myanmar and Laos. In May 2008, a 7.9 magnitude quake rocked
Sichuan, killing more than 80,000 people and flattening swathes of the province
in China's worst earthquake for more than three decades. A shallow
5.9-magnitude earthquake jolted awake residents of China's northwestern Qinghai
province on Thursday, with some choosing to sleep in their cars out of fear
despite freezing temperatures of -20C (-4F).The quake hit at 1:13 am local time
(1713 GMT) at a depth of just 10 kilometres (six miles), the United States
Geological Survey said, with no reports of casualties.
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