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Moderate quakes hits northwest China

TWO moderate earthquakes hit northwest China's Shaanxi and Qinghai Provinces today, said China's national seismological network. No casualties have been reported. An earthquake measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale... ...full story at Shanghai Daily

from Shanghai Daily on Thu, Nov 05 2009

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