5.1 Magnitude Quake Shakes Northeast Chinese City; No Injuries Reported
A five.1 magnitude earthquake shook the northeastern Chinese language town of Tangshan on Sunday, the federal government reported. No deaths or accidents had been reported.
Rail provider to Tangshan, 160 kilometres east of Beijing, used to be quickly suspended whilst tracks had been inspected for conceivable injury, the authentic Xinhua Information Company reported.
The quake struck at 6:38 am at a intensity of 10 kilometres, the China Earthquake Networks Centre reported. It mentioned a 2d quake of magnitude 2.2 struck at 7:02 am.
An earthquake that struck Tangshan in 1976 killed a minimum of 242,000 other folks in some of the deadliest herbal screw ups in historical past.
