The tremor occurred at 5:07 a.m. local time on Saturday (2107 GMT on Friday) and was centered 94 miles southwest of the town of Shihezi in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS), Reuters reported.
The worst of China’s earthquakes in recent years happened on May 12, 2008 in Sichuan province, where about 70,000 people lost their lives and at least 4.8 million people were displaced.
The 8-magnitude earthquake in Sichuan was the deadliest to strike China since the 1976 quake in Tangshan, known as the Great Tangshan Earthquake, which claimed the lives of 240,000 people.
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