Strong quake hits China's Qinghai region

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Source: Reuters

BEIJING (Reuters) - A strong earthquake measuring 6.5 hit a sparsely populated area in China's western province of Qinghai on Monday, but there were no reports of deaths or injuries.

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) originally put the magnitude of the quake at 6.7 but quickly revised it down to 6.5. China's Xinhua news agency put the magnitude of the tremor at 6.3.

Buildings shook in the remote mining city of Golmud and the regional capital, Xining.

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"We are on the tenth floor, so I felt a very strong tremor 10 minutes ago, but there's been no damage," said a Xining government official who only gave her surname, Wang.



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