Beijing: Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered all-out rescue efforts to minimize casualties after a magnitude-6.2 earthquake jolted Jishishan County in northwest China’s Gansu Province late Monday evening.
A magnitude-6.2 earthquake jolted Jishishan County in northwest China’s Gansu Province, at 11:59 p.m. on Monday, with a depth of 10 kilometers, according to China Earthquake Networks Center.
The earthquake has killed 100 people in Gansu and another 11 in the neighboring Qinghai Province.
The State Council’s earthquake relief headquarters and the Ministry of Emergency Management have upgraded the national earthquake emergency response to level II.
