BEIJING, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) — The Chinese government on Wednesday allocated 30 million yuan (about 4.23 million U.S. dollars) in emergency funding for the restoration of roads in quake-hit Gansu and Qi
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Feature: Rescuers battle against odds in NW township after quake, sand boil
XINING, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) — It was getting dark and the temperature had plummeted, but people in a village struck by Monday\’s earthquake in northwest China were still waiting in the icy wind, as rescu
CPC allocates 100 million yuan to quake-hit areas
China\’s main Communist Party of China personnel management and Party building body has allocated 100 million yuan ($14 million) from the Party funds to northwestern China\’s Gansu and Qinghai provinces
Possibility of large aftershock looms in Gansu province
Comprehensive analysis showed that there is a possibility of strong aftershocks with a magnitude of 5.0 in the near future in the epicenter area of the 6.2-magnitude earthquake in Jishishan county in
Earthquake leaves 13 dead in China\’s Qinghai
XINING, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) — The 6.2-magnitude earthquake that rattled an ethnic county in northwest China\’s Gansu Province around midnight Monday has killed 13 people in the neighboring Qinghai Provin
Earthquake relief is underway in Gansu province
Gansu Province\’s earthquake relief headquarters has started its Level II earthquake emergency response after a 6.2-magnitude earthquake jolted Jishishan county in the province late on Monday evening,
Red Cross rescuers rush to aid disaster relief in Gansu following 6.2-magnitude quake
BEIJING, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) — The Red Cross Society of China (RCSC) has initiated its Level II emergency response and dispatched task forces to disaster areas after a 6.2-magnitude quake jolted northwe
Earthquake death toll rises to 105 in China\’s Gansu
JISHISHAN, Gansu Province, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) — The 6.2-magnitude earthquake that jolted an ethnic county in northwest China\’s Gansu Province at midnight Monday has killed 105 people in the province, a
6.1-magnitude earthquake hits central Indonesia, no tsunami alert issued
JAKARTA, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) — A 6.1-magnitude earthquake rocked off Central Sulawesi province in Indonesia on Saturday, but did not trigger giant waves, the country\’s meteorology, climatology and geoph
6.2-magnitude earthquake rocks northern Philippines
MANILA, June 15 (Xinhua) — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 rocked Batangas province in the northern Philippines on Thursday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology s