1. Earthquake Information
Summary:
Magnitude
Mw 6.9
Region
SOUTHERN QINGHAI, CHINA
Date time
at 23:49:40.8 UTC
Location
33.27 N ; E
Depth
33 km
Distances
595 km SW Xining (pop 767,531 ; local time 07: ) 592 km N Pasighat (pop 25,581 ; local time 05: )
Credit EMSC
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2. Earthquake Parameters
Mw=7.9, D=10 km
Mw=6.8, D=33 km
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3. 歴史地震
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5. 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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6. Yushu, China Earthquake
Image 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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14. Rescuers and survivors work to dig people out
A small part of the destruction in Yushu county, Qinghai province
Photograph: ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images
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15. A man stands in rubble of a destroyed building in Jiegu town
A car amongst under the ruins and debris
Photograph: Wu Hong/AP
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16. A destroyed building in Jiegu town
Collapsed houses in the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu, Qinghai province
Photograph: Wu Hong/AP
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