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Earthquake Information

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Summary:

Magnitude Mw 6.9

Region SOUTHERN QINGHAI, CHINA

Date time 2010-04-13 at 23:49:40.8 UTC

Location 33.27 N ; 96.67 E

Depth 33 km

Distances 595 km SW Xining (pop 767,531 ; local time 07:49 2010-04-14)592 km N Pasighat (pop 25,581 ; local time 05:19 2010-04-14)

Earthquake Parameters

200805120627Mw=7.9, D=10 km201004132349

Mw=6.8, D=33 km

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歴史地震

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A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck the Tibetan Plateau in southern Qinghai Province, China, on April 13, 2010, killing hundreds of people and injuring as many as 10,000.

As the India Plate pushes north, the eastern side of the Tibetan Plateau is getting bent and stretched toward the south-southeast. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake occurred along a strike-slip fault, and it was one of the largest known earthquakes to have occurred within several hundred kilometers of the location.

Based on data collected by the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission in 2002, this map shows the location of the quake and several aftershocks (black circles) as well as significant tectonic faults (red lines). A northwest-southeast valley provides evidence of the underlying geologic fault. The dotted line to the southwest traces the approximate location of a suture zone, which, as its name suggests, is an area where two continental plates have joined together.

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Yushu, China EarthquakeImage Collected April 15, 2010

These are a natural color, 60 centimeter high-resolution DigitalGlobe QuickBird satellite images featuring damage following the 7.1 magnitude earthquake that struck Yushu, China

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A small part of the destruction in Yushu county, Qinghai province

Rescuers and survivors work to dig people out

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A car amongst under the ruins and debris

A man stands in rubble of a destroyed building in Jiegu town

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Collapsed houses in the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu, Qingh

ai province

A destroyed building in Jiegu town

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