BEIJING (Reuters) -Natural disasters across China in the first half of 2025 brought direct economic losses of 54.11 billion ...

An overnight earthquake killed at least 118 people in a cold and mountainous region in northwestern China, provincial officials said Tuesday, in the nation’s deadliest quake in 10 years.

The earthquake struck at 11.59pm (4pm GMT) at a shallow depth of 10km in Gansu province and neighbouring Qinghai province, the China Earthquake Networks Centre said.

The earthquake struck at a relatively shallow depth of 6 miles in Gansu’s Jishishan county, about three miles from the provincial boundary with Qinghai, the China Earthquake Networks Center said.

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UCHTURPAN, China — Aftershocks from a magnitude 7.1 earthquake continued to rock western China on Wednesday, while more than 12,000 displaced people relying on tents and shelters lit bonfires to ...

Photo shows the aftermath of a 6.6-magnitude earthquake in Hailuogou, in China's southwestern Sichuan province, on September 5, 2022. STR/AFP via Getty Images ...

China’s last earthquake with a higher death count was in 2014 in southwestern Yunnan Province, where 617 people died. The government honed its rescue and relief efforts after a 7.9-magnitude ...

China’s worst earthquake since 2014 has caused a direct economic loss of 532 million yuan ($74.6 million) for a northwestern province that hosts the epicenter, the country’s state broadcaster ...

A 6.8-magnitude earthquake in southwestern China has killed at least 46 people and sparked landslides in the province of Sichuan, officials said. The quake happened just after noon on Monday ...

China has reopened roads leading to the epicentre of Monday's 6.8 magnitude earthquake in the southwestern province of Sichuan and traffic has resumed, state media reported on Wednesday, while the ...