An earthquake of magnitude 5.5 on the Richter scale hit China’s Qinghai province on Thursday.
“A 5.5-magnitude earthquake hit Mangya city in northwest China’s Qinghai Province on Thursday at 8:39 am local time, with a depth of 10 km,” according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC), China’s state-run media agency Xinhua said.
The epicentre was monitored at 38.39 degrees north latitude and 90.93 degrees east longitude, with a depth of 10 km, CENC.
So far, no report of casualty has come forward.
The quake came a day after a jolt of the magnitude-7.4 quake hit China’s neighbouring Taiwan on Wednesday, killing at least nine people and leaving more than 1,000 injured. The earthquake also prompted tsunami warnings as far as Japan and the Philippines before being lifted.
Wu Chien-fu, director of Taipei’s Central Weather Administration’s Seismology Center, said the quake was the strongest since one 7.6-magnitude struck in September 1999, killing around 2,400 people in the deadliest natural disaster in the island’s history.
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