Special
report: Strong Earthquake
Jolts SW China
BEIJING, May 12 (Xinhua) -- A chronology of major
earthquakes measuring at or above 5 on the Richter scale in China since 2003.
2008:
April 24 -- A 6.1-magnitude earthquake off eastern
Taiwan, China.
March 30 -- A 5-magnitude earthquake in the Yugur
Autonomous County of Sunan in northwestern Gansu Province.
March 21 -- A 7.3-magnitude earthquake in Hotan
Prefecture of northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
March 21 -- A 5-magnitude earthquake in Yingjiang
County of southwestern Yunnan Province.
Jan. 9 -- A 6.9-magnitude earthquake in Gerze County
in Ngari Prefecture of Tibet Autonomous Region.
2007:
July 23 -- A 5.5-magnitude earthquake at sea east off
the coast of Hualien in Taiwan.
July 20 -- A 5.7-magnitude earthquake in Tekes county
of Kazak Autonomous Prefecture of Ili in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
May 5 -- A 6.1-magnitude earthquake on the border of
Rutog and Gerze counties in Ngari Prefecture of Tibet Autonomous Region.
Feb. 3 -- A 5.5-magnitude earthquake in the
Mongolian-Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Haixi in northwestern Qinghai
Province.
Jan. 25 -- A 5.5-magnitude earthquake at sea off the
east coast of Taiwan.
2005:
Nov. 26 -- A 5.7-magnitude earthquake in Jiujiang
city in eastern Jiangxi Province, with several aftershocks.
2004:
Aug. 10 -- A 5.6-magnitude quake hit Ludian County in
Zhaotong city of Yunnan Province.
2003:
Dec. 1 -- A 6.1-magnitude quake in Zhaosu County in
Kazak Autonomous Prefecture of Ili of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
Nov. 15 -- A 5.1-magnitude earthquake in Ludian
County in Yunnan Province.
July 21 -- A 6.2-magnitude earthquake in Dayao County
in Yi Autonomous Prefecture of Chuxiong of Yunnan Province.
June 9 -- A 5.8-magnitude quake somewhere between
Yilan and Su'ao in Taiwan.
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