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Qinghai province struck by 6.9 magnitude temblor

16 April 2010

At least 400 people have been reported dead, with an unknown number trapped, after a 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit Qinghai province in north-west China on 14 April. Many of the buildings in Yushu, a county with a largely Tibetan population of about 250,000, were thought to be wooden-framed constructions. This latest disaster follows the 2008 earthquake in neighbouring Sichuan province, about 800km from Yushu, which left 87,000 people dead or missing and five million homeless.
The Qinghai temblor, with an...

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