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Moderate earthquake destroys homes, injures dozens in northwest China
11 August 2011(http://channel6newsonline.com/)
KASHI, CHINA (BNO NEWS) -- A moderate earthquake struck northwestern China on early Thursday evening, seismologists and government officials said, destroying scores of homes and injuring more than two dozen people.
The 5.8-magnitude earthquake at 6.06 p.m. local time (1006 GMT) was centered about 103 kilometers (64 miles) east-northeast of Kashi, a city in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China. It struck about 8 kilometers (4.9 miles) deep, making it a shallow earthquake, according to the China Earthquake Network Center (CENC).
A spokesperson for the China Earthquake Administration (CEA) said it immediately activated its emergency response plan after the earthquake, which was centered in a border area between the region's Atux City in the Kizilsu Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture and Jiashi County in Kashgar.
As of early Friday morning, the CEA said damage and injuries had been reported in two towns near the epicenter. A total of 26 people were reported injured, including three seriously, while at least 80 homes had collapsed.
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