Earthquake jolts China, Russia at 6.2
Feb 18, 2010 I Earthquakes.BEIJING: A magnitude 6.5 earthquake jolted the boundary area among China and Russia Thursday morning, according to China Earthquake Networks Centre (CNEC). The CNEC tell that the quake struck at 9.13 am at strength of 540 km. “I hardly felt any tremors when the earthquake struck,” said Jin Jianghu, a resident in Yanji city in the northeastern area of Jilin.
The province’s emergency office said Xinhua it had not received any information of casualties. There was also no immediate information of damages or casualties from the neighboring Heilongjiang province which also limits Russia. The epicentre of the quake was located 110 km south-west of Russia’s Vladivostok.
The US Geological Survey put the magnitude at 6.7; addition that it occurred at a depth of 562 km. Officials in Vladivostok said there had been no wounded or damage on Russian territory. No information was available from North Korea. The quake’s epicentre was situated 111 km north-east of Chongjin, the Stalinist state’s 3rd -largest city.