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Beijing.- A 5.2-magnitude earthquake shook the autonomous region of Xinjiang, in northwestern China, this Wednesday, without any personal or material damage being reported so far, the country's Seismological Networks Center reported.
The earthquake was recorded at 3:17 local time (19:17 GMT on Tuesday) at a depth of 10 kilometers.
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The epicenter was located in Takorgan county at 37.58 degrees north latitude and 74.93 degrees east longitude, in a mountainous area near the border with Kyrgyzstan. The affected area is located about 800 kilometers from Urumqi, the regional capital, and last December registered another earthquake of magnitude 6 located in Aheqi County, which also did not cause significant damage. The west of China (where the autonomous regions of Tibet and Xinjiang and provinces such as Gansu or Qinghai are located) frequently suffers earthquakes, because it is located near the place where the tectonic plates of Asia and India, in the Himalayas, rub against each other. However, they do not usually cause great personal damage because a large part of the western area of the country is uninhabited.
