A 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit Yushu County in northwest China's Qinghai Province Wednesday morning, ... Buddhist monks join rescue workers in their efforts to excavate people trapped under debris. AP ...

Relief materials have been sent to Yushu by the Qinghai Bureau of Civil Affairs after a 7.1-magnitude-earthquake hit the region early on Wednesday. Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu (third right ...

The earthquake struck Wednesday morning in one of the most inaccessible reaches of China, in Qinghai province. The 100,000 people in Yushu county are mostly Tibetan, many of them making their ...

They were soon joined by veritable army of Chinese rescue workers, soldiers and officials. Having felt the political aftershocks of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, Beijing was taking no chances.

Members of China International Search and Rescue Team work in the quake-hit Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of northwest China's Qinghai Province, April 19, 2010.

Reconstruction work in the Tibetan area of Yushu, hit by an earthquake on April 14, will start next Tuesday in two villages, the newspaper China Daily reported.

On April 14, 2010, the devastating magnitude-7.1 Yushu earthquake staggered northwest China. Officials reported the death toll eventually surpassed 2,600, with many thousands of people injured.

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