An earthquake measuring 5.6 degrees on the Richter scale jolted the Yushu county of Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai province on wWednesday at 5:53 p.m. (Beijing Time), reported China’s official news agency Xinhua July 19 quoting the China Seismological Bureau.
It said the epicenter was located 70 kilometers south of Yushu county in a sparsely populated pasturing area on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau at 33.0 degrees north latitude and 96.3 degrees east longitude.
Another earthquake measuring 5.0 degrees hit the same area on Tuesday.
Xinhua said there were no reports of casualties from the Seismological Bureau from the two quakes.
Yushu County located in the southwest of Qinghai has a population of 76,000 – ninety percent of whom is Tibetan. The Yushu prefecture has vast grasslands and its snow mountains feed the headwaters of three major rivers of China: the Yangtze River, the Yellow River and the Lancang River.
