5.1-magnitude earthquake hits Qinghai in NW China: CENC
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S A 5.1-magnitude earthquake jolted Haixi Prefecture of northwest China’s Qinghai Province at 1:04 a.m. on Friday (Beijing Time), according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC).
The epicenter was monitored at 37.84 degrees north latitude and 95.59 degrees east longitude. The earthquake struck at a depth of 10 km, the center said.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
The shallow depth of 10 km seems significant for such a small tremor. My own region experiences more frequent shifts near fault lines.