China Earthquake Kills 300

China Earthquake Kills 300Beijing, Apr 14. -An earthquake of 7.1 Richter scale degrees that shook the Chinese province of Qinghai killed about 300 and hurt 8,000 too.

The figures were specified by the general undersecretary in the Tibet autonomous government Yushu Huang Limin.

The quake epicentre was at latitude 33.1 degree north and longitude 96.7 East at about 31 miles of Jiegu town headquarters of the authority previously mentioned and 497 miles of Xining the provincial capital, noted information coming from that northwestern territory.

Over 85 percent of the houses in Jiegu collapsed while the aftershocks adds up 3 one of them of 6.3 degree occurred after an hour and a minute of the quake registered at 07:49 local hour.

According to reports the rescue teams of the central and provincial governments in the vicinity went to the affected region.(Prensa Latina)