A magnitude 5.3 earthquake shook the western Chinese region of Xinjiang this Thursday, with no casualties or material damage reported so far.
The earthquake was recorded at 06:23 local time (00:38 on Thursday in Spain), with its epicenter located 10 kilometers deep, reported the China Seismological Networks Center.
The earthquake affected the town of Akqi, belonging to the Kyrgyz prefecture of Kizilsu, bordering Kyrgyzstan.
It is an area of ​​low population density: Akqi County has little more than 44,000 inhabitants spread over 11,500 square kilometers.
Last January, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake shook the neighboring prefecture of Aksu, leaving three victims and damage to homes and infrastructure.
Western China (where the autonomous regions of Tibet and Xinjiang are located, and provinces such as Gansu or Qinghai) frequently suffers from these earthquakes, because it is located near the place where They rub the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates in the Himalayas.
