Powerful quake hits Uighur region on China-Kyrg border

3 months ago

A major 7.0-magnitude earthquake has struck along the China-Kyrgyzstan border, the United States Geological Survey said, warning of potentially widespread damage though no casualties have been reported. The quake was registered just after 2:00 am (1800 GMT Monday) at a depth of 13 kilometres in China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region region, some 140 kilometres west of the city of Aksu, where