Students evacuate from their dormitory on the Lanzhou University Yuzhong campus in Lanzhou in northwestern China’s Gansu province on Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023, after an earthquake hit the realm. At least 100 have been killed in a magnitude 6.2 earthquake in northwestern China, the nation’s state media reported on Tuesday.

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Students evacuate from their dormitory on the Lanzhou University Yuzhong campus in Lanzhou in northwestern China’s Gansu province on Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023, after an earthquake hit the realm. At least 100 have been killed in a magnitude 6.2 earthquake in northwestern China, the nation’s state media reported on Tuesday.

Wang Xi/by way of AP

BEIJING — A powerful earthquake struck a distant a part of western China in a single day killing at the least 111 individuals and injuring greater than 200, the state information company Xinhua reported Tuesday.

The tremblor hit Jishishan County, within the southwestern a part of Gansu province close to the border with Qinghai province — a mountainous area populated, partially, by members of the Tibetan, Hui, Dongxiang and Salar ethnic teams.

Xinhua mentioned the earthquake had a magnitude of 6.2. Of the lifeless, 100 have been in Gansu and one other 11 in Qinghai.

The quake broken water, electrical energy, transport, communications and different infrastructure within the space, it mentioned.

Chinese chief Xi Jinping shortly known as for all-out efforts in search and rescue and treating the injured. He additionally urged the hasty deployment of reduction supplies and infrastructure repairs, as a result of the affected space is at excessive altitude and the winter climate is chilly.

The U.S. Geological Survey mentioned the quake had a magnitude of 5.9, and reported a number of aftershocks.