A 6.7-magnitude earthquake jolted Aketao County, Kizilsu Kirghiz Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region at 22:24 p.m. Friday (Beijing Time), said the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC). Read more
A strong magnitude 6.6 earthquake occurred at 00:02:47 (UTC) on Saturday, April 20, 2013, in the western Sichuan region, China, 107 km NW from Leshan, Sichuan, China, at a depth of 12.3 km.
A series of earthquakes have hit south-west China, leaving at least seven people dead and 20 injured, state-run media report. The quakes struck the border of Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, with the largest felt at 03:19 UT (11:19 Beijing time). Read more
A strong magnitude 6.3 earthquake occurred at 21:07:32 (UTC) on Friday, June 29, 2012, in the Northern Xinjiang region, China, about 99 km South of Dushanzi, Xinjiang, at a depth of 9.8 km.
The 2008 Sichuan earthquake or the Great Sichuan Earthquake was a deadly earthquake that measured at 8.0 Ms and 7.9 Mw occurred at 14:28:01.42 CST (02:28:01.42 EDT) on May 12, 2008 in Sichuan province of China and killed at least 68,000 people. Read more
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake occurred at 04:58:17 (UTC) on Thursday, March 10, 2011, in the Myanmar-China border region, about 95 km SE of Myitkyina, at a depth of 10 km. Location 24.710°N, 97.994°E
The website of the Chinese government earthquake monitoring station said the magnitude-5.8 quake was centred in Yingjiang and struck just before 1 p.m. (0500 GMT) at a depth of 10 kilometres. The U.S. Geological Survey measured the quake at a magnitude of 5.4 and at a deeper 35 kilometres. Read more
Two years after the massive earthquake that devastated China's Sichuan province, families of the thousands of missing people can on Wednesday finally register their loved ones as dead. Under Chinese law, relatives of the 18,000 missing people can only register their family members as dead two years after they disappeared. Nearly 70,000 people were killed in the May 2008 quake that devastated parts of the southwestern province and rattled a nation preparing to host the Beijing Olympics. Read more
Satellite data look behind the scenes of deadly earthquake Using satellite radar data and GPS measurements, Chinese researchers have explained the exceptional geological events leading to the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake that killed nearly 90 000 people in Chinas Sichuan Province.