An earthquake that killed more than 120 people in China this week was the country's deadliest in nearly a decade. Earthquakes happen most frequently in western China on the Tibetan Plateau or ...

The earthquake struck at a relatively shallow depth of 6 miles in Gansu’s Jishishan county, about three miles from the provincial boundary with Qinghai, the China Earthquake Networks Center said ...

An overnight earthquake killed at least 118 people in a cold and mountainous region in northwestern China, provincial officials said Tuesday, in the nation’s deadliest quake in 10 years.

China’s finance ministry and emergency management ministry jointly allocated 200m yuan (£22.1m) for the earthquake-hit Gansu and Qinghai provinces, CCTV reported.

The China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC) gave a slightly higher reading of 6.2 magnitude. The epicenter is located close to the border between Gansu and Qinghai, a mountainous region on the ...

Officials say a magnitude 7.1 earthquake in a remote part of China’s western Xinjiang region has killed at least three people and caused extensive damage in freezing weather. Credit: AP/Ng Han ...

The men were sentenced to five days in detention. China’s last earthquake with a higher death count was in 2014 in southwestern Yunnan Province, where 617 people died.

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Observatory says ‘tsunami heights of the first couple of waves reaching Hong Kong were too low to be observed’.

A moderately strong, 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck in northwestern China on Monday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The temblor happened at 11:59 p.m. China time, data from ...