Magnitude 6.5 earthquake jolts China, Russia border
By IANSThursday, February 18, 2010
BEIJING - A magnitude 6.5 earthquake jolted the border region between China and Russia Thursday morning, according to China Earthquake Networks Centre (CNEC).
The CNEC said that the quake struck at 9.13 a.m at a depth of 540 km.
“I hardly felt any tremors when the earthquake struck,” said Jin Jianghu, a resident in Yanji city in the northeastern province of Jilin.
The province’s emergency office told Xinhua it had not received any reports of casualties.
There were also no immediate reports of damages or casualties from the neighbouring Heilongjiang province which also borders Russia.
DPA adds: The epicentre of the quake was located 110 km south-west of Russia’s Vladivostok, the Interfax news agency said.
The US Geological Survey put the magnitude at 6.7, adding that it occurred at a depth of 562 km.
Officials in Vladivostok said there had been no casualties or damage on Russian territory.
No information was available from North Korea. The quake’s epicentre was located 111 kilometres north-east of Chongjin, the Stalinist state’s third-largest city.
