The earthquake of magnitude 5 is registered on Wednesday on the territory of the Xinjiang-Uygursky Autonomous Region in the north-west of the PRC, according to the Chinese Seismological Center.
According to the message posted on the department’s website, the underground shocks were recorded at 14:52 local time in the district of the district of the Khutan district. The focus of the earthquake lay at a depth of 10 km. Information about the victims or destruction in the urban district of Khotan, whose population is 2.5 million people, has not yet been received.
It is also indicated that at 14:54 local time, the submarines of the magnitude of 3.2 were recorded in the district of Kashggar of the Cashggar of the Sinjan-Uyghur Autonomous Region.