{"id":40552,"date":"2013-07-22T13:21:32","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T10:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=40552"},"modified":"2013-07-22T13:21:32","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T10:21:32","slug":"earthquake-hits-gansu-province-in-china-54-people-has-dead-dozens-injured-asia-news-40552","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/earthquake-hits-gansu-province-in-china-54-people-has-dead-dozens-injured-asia-news-40552\/","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake hits Gansu province in China 54 people has dead dozens injured \/ Asia News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Two earthquakes have struck in China killing at least 54 people and injuring 412, according to the local government.<\/h1>\n

The twin quakes hit near the city of Dingxi in Gansu province, a region of mountains, desert and pastureland with a population of 26 million.<\/p>\n

An official at the provincial earthquake bureau said: “More than 21,000 buildings were severely damaged and more than 1,200 have collapsed.”<\/p>\n

The most recent figures given for the number killed and injured came from the local government in Dingxi, who posted the details on their verified social media account.<\/p>\n

The first 5.9-magnitude quake struck at 7.45am (11.45pm GMT) in the Gansu province and the second, measuring 5.6-magnitude, hit in the same region at 9.12am, according to the US Geological Survey.<\/p>\n

A resident of Min county said he was at work at a medicine production plant when the tremor struck and he saw tower blocks shake “ferociously”.<\/p>\n

“I was in the workshop. I felt violent shaking and so I ran to the yard of the plant immediately,” said the man, surnamed Ma.<\/p>\n

“Our factory is only one floor. When I came to the yard, I saw an 18 storey building, the tallest in our county, shaking ferociously, especially the 18th floor.”<\/p>\n

Shaking was felt in the provincial capital of Lanzhou 110 miles north, and as far away as Xi’an, 250 miles to the east.<\/p>\n

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“You could see the chandeliers wobble and the windows vibrating and making noise, but there aren’t any cracks in the walls,” said a front desk clerk at the Wuyang Hotel in Zhang County, about 25 miles from the epicentre.<\/p>\n

“Shop assistants all poured out onto the streets when the shaking began.”<\/p>\n

The quake was shallow, which can be more destructive. The first quake was 9km deep while the second was 10km deep.<\/p>\n

Dingxi is about 766 miles west of Beijing.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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