According to authorities, the major earthquake in the Kazakh-China border area on Tuesday evening caused no fatalities.
Since the magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurred in a remote mountainous area with only a few villages, damage is likely to be limited. According to current information, six people were injured in China. Two of them suffered serious injuries. In Almaty, Kazakhstan’s largest city, 44 people were injured, the Health Ministry said.
However, the American earthquake monitoring station USGS warned that significant damage and deaths could be expected. Search and rescue efforts are still in progress. Since the first quake, there have been dozens of aftershocks.
Videos from the city of two million people shared on social media showed frightened people on the streets in the middle of the night – in temperatures below minus ten degrees Celsius.
The earthquake was felt as far away as New Delhi
The earthquake was also felt in Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and the Indian capital New Delhi. The tri-border region of China, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan is repeatedly shaken by earthquakes.
Source: Krone
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