Four earthquakes with a magnitude of up to 4.6 hit northwest China

Beijing.- Four earthquakes with magnitudes between 3.2 and 4.6 were recorded in the early hours of this Friday in the autonomous region of Xinjiang, in northwestern China, according to data from the China Earthquake Networks Center, without any damage being reported at the moment.

The first of the tremors occurred at 01:19 local time, in Yuli County, with a magnitude of 3.3 and a depth of 21 kilometers.

Twenty minutes later, at 01:39 local time, an earthquake of magnitude 3.2 was recorded in the municipality of Kuqa, with a depth of 25 kilometers. At 01:40 local time, another earthquake occurred in Yuli, this time with a magnitude of 4.6 and a depth of 19 kilometers.

Finally, at 01:51 local time, a fourth tremor of magnitude 4.5 shook Kuqa again, with a depth of 26 kilometers.

According to the official record, in the last five years, 529 earthquakes of magnitude greater than 3 have occurred within a 200-kilometer radius in that area.

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In January 2024, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake shook the nearby town of Aksu, leaving three victims and damage to homes and infrastructure. The west of China frequently suffers these telluric movements, because it is located near the place where the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates rub against each other, in the Himalayas. However, on numerous occasions the tremors do not cause significant damage, due to the low population density of the region.