China Central Television said the toll from Wednesday's earthquake had risen as rescue workers struggled to dig trapped people out in Qinghai province. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake measured a magnitude of 6.9.
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At least 300 people have died and others are trapped under rubble after a magnitude-6.9 earthquake struck China's Qinghai province, officials say.
The powerful tremor hit remote Yushu county, 500km (310 miles) south-west of provincial capital Xining, at 0749 (2349 GMT), at a shallow depth of 10km.
Chinese TV showed wrecked buildings and people scrabbling through debris.
Officials ordered rescue crews and supplies to Yushu, but the area is hundreds of miles from an airport.
"Soldiers have been dispatched to save the people buried in the collapsed houses," local official Huang Limin was quoted as saying by China's state news agency Xinhua.
Chinese go to Hell!
BraVuravn 1 year ago
@Mildsonia <-- knows it all.. idiot..
Suzzyta 1 year ago
@Mildsonia
sorry, that's a Tibetan area, tibetan dont eat dog.
Not all people in china like to eat dog.
raymondx09 1 year ago
Do not eat more dogs, judgments of God, nature groaneth pain, you the Chinese, are cruel to animals
Mildsonia 1 year ago
The earthquakes will continue throughout the year ... strangest thing is that will be followed ... ......, powerful and therefore more deaths and destruction ..... The next country that touches either the end of April, May, June .... Good luck
AlbiorixGallic 1 year ago
is it the end?
edj 1 year ago
It's coming...
Lahmaster7 1 year ago
2012...
peanutbutterdawg 1 year ago