An earthquake of magnitude 6.3 degrees striking the northwest of China
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November 15th, 2008
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An earthquake of a magnitude of 6.3 degrees on the Richter scale hit opened from Monday morning the province of the Qinghai in the northwest of China, announced the Seismological Administration of China.
The earthquake hit the Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Qinghai Haix of the Monday to 09h22 (local hour), according to the Network of seismic monitoring of China.
The epicenter of the earthquake has been localized to 37.6 degrees of north latitude and to 95.9 degrees of longitude is, to 716 km to the west of Xining, county seat of the province.
The government of the District of Da Qaidam, situated close to the epicenter, sent three teams composed of 180 civil servants to count the losses in the villages hit by the earthquake. "No human loss has been signaled for the meantime," indicated the person responsible local Gu Xiaodong.
Da Qaidam is a region to weak population lives where about 16 000 people of the ethnic groups Mongol, Tibetan, Hui and Han, according to the internet site of the local government.
The district of Da Qaidam, whose name means "a big salted lake" in Mongolian dialect, is rich in mineral resources, with one of biggest zinc mines of the west of the country and the mining of coal.
Gu Xiaodong informed that the epicenter of the earthquake was located close to two of coal mines. "But the two mines have not been damaged" seriously.
The earthquake has been felt by inhabitants of Xining, provincial county seat.
"We have all jumped during our meeting this morning," My indicated Yong, journalist of the Office of Xinhua (New China) in Xining. The office, a building of four floors, is located in the downtown of Xining.
The earthquake has also been felt in the industrial city of Golmud and Delinha, county seat of the prefecture of Haix.
As soon as the first jolts made themselves feel, a lot of people hurried outside. Some residents affirmed that it was the most violent earthquake than they had felt since the earthquake of magnitude 8.1 that shook Hol Xil in 2001 ", declared Luo Zhenggang, a civil servant of Golmud.
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