Magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes Tajikistan-China border
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Magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes Tajikistan-China border

Magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes Tajikistan-China border

It occurred near the border between the northwestern Chinese Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and Tajikistan’s Gorno-Badakhshan

Divsha Bhat
Tajikistan-China

A 7.2 magnitude earthquake hit the Tajikistan-China border early Thursday, according to China Earthquake Network Center (CENC).

It occurred near the border between the northwestern Chinese Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and Tajikistan’s mountainous Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region.

It had a depth of 20 kilometres and was 66 km west of the small town of Murghob, in Tajikistan, near the border with China’s Xinjiang region.

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