Firefighters in China's Gansu province preparing to head to Sichuan on August 8.
Photos from the scene showed what appeared to be pieces of buildings lying in the street, a stone the height of a small automobile in the street and a heavily damaged hotel entrance, its revolving doors twisted and rubble lying in front of them.
The temblor wasn't the only quake in China in the past 24 hours.
On Wednesday morning, a magnitude-6.3 earthquake struck northwestern China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, close to the border to Kazakhstan, the United States Geological Survey said.
The quake struck at 7:27 a.m. local time. Its epicenter was 107 kilometers (67 miles) south-southeast of Dostq, Kazakhstan, at a depth of 25.9 kilometers (16 miles), the USGS said.
There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage, due to the sparsely populated nature of the area.
CNN's Steve Almasy contributed to this report.Firefighters in China's Gansu province preparing to head to Sichuan on August 8.
Photos from the scene showed what appeared to be pieces of buildings lying in the street, a stone the height of a small automobile in the street and a heavily damaged hotel entrance, its revolving doors twisted and rubble lying in front of them.
The temblor wasn't the only quake in China in the past 24 hours.
On Wednesday morning, a magnitude-6.3 earthquake struck northwestern China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, close to the border to Kazakhstan, the United States Geological Survey said.
The quake struck at 7:27 a.m. local time. Its epicenter was 107 kilometers (67 miles) south-southeast of Dostq, Kazakhstan, at a depth of 25.9 kilometers (16 miles), the USGS said.
There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage, due to the sparsely populated nature of the area.
CNN's Steve Almasy contributed to this report.The shudder struck Jiuzhaigou County in China's southwestern Sichuan Province late on Tuesday night.
No less than five of the general population who passed on were vacationers, Xinhua announced, refering to the data office of the commonplace government. Around 2,800 individuals were emptied from the extremely harmed Intercontinental inn.
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Rescuers are as yet attempting to clear the rubble, and there are individuals covered underneath the flotsam and jetsam, state supporter CCTV said.
There was some contradiction over the size and energy of the seismic tremor.
The US Geological Survey announced a size 6.5 shudder 35 kilometers (22 miles) west-southwest of Yongle, Xinhua revealed it was 7.0-greatness, refering to the China Earthquake Networks Center. Inhabitants in Chengdu, the common capital - 300 kilometers (186 miles) far from the epicenter - told state media they had felt the quake.Firefighters in China's Gansu area get ready to make a beeline for Sichuan on August 8.
Photographs from the scene indicated what had all the earmarks of being bits of structures lying in the road, a stone the stature of a little car in the road and an intensely harmed lodging passageway, its rotating entryways wound and rubble lying before them.
The earthquake wasn't the main shudder in China in the previous 24 hours.
On Wednesday morning, an extent 6.3 tremor struck northwestern China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, near the outskirt to Kazakhstan, the United States Geological Survey said.
The shudder struck at 7:27 a.m. nearby time. Its epicenter was 107 kilometers (67 miles) south-southeast of Dostq, Kazakhstan, at a profundity of 25.9 kilometers (16 miles), the USGS said.
There were no quick reports of losses or harm, because of the scantily populated nature of the territory.
CNN's Steve Almasy added to this report.
