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Several people have been injured after homes collapsed due to a magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck China’s northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region early Tuesday, state-run media reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The quake’s epicenter was at a depth of 22 kilometers (13 miles) in the mountainous border region of Wushi County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tremors were felt across the region and in the neighboring countries of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Several dwellings and livestock sheds collapsed in areas near the epicenter, with some herders suffering minor injuries, Xinhua News reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Several people have been injured after homes collapsed due to a magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck China’s northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region early Tuesday, state-run media reported. The quake’s epicenter was at a depth of 22 kilometers (13 miles) in the mountainous border region of Wushi County. Tremors were felt across the region and in …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":100596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[6123],"tags":[6253,6519],"class_list":["post-100595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","tag-powerful-earthquake","tag-xinjiang-region"],"yoast_head":"\n