Earthquake in western China
A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck in Pishan County , Hotan Prefecture , Xinjiang , China 95 km (59 mi) southeast of Yilkiqi (يىلقىچى يېزىسى / 依力克其乡 ), on July 3 at a depth of 20.0 km (12.4 mi).[ 1] The earthquake killed at least 3 people and wounded 71.[ 2] [ 3]
The earthquake occurred on a blind thrust fault that ruptured but did not reach the surface. Instead, the earthquake rupture ceased some 3–7 km beneath the surface.[ 4]
^ "M6.4 – 95 km SE of Yilkiqi, China" . United States Geological Survey. July 3, 2015. Retrieved July 3, 2015 . ^ "Earthquake killed 3 people in China" . Reuters. July 3, 2015. Retrieved July 3, 2015 . ^ ying (ed.). "Xinjiang earthquake kills 3, injures 71" . Xinhua News Agency . Archived from the original on 6 July 2015. Retrieved 4 July 2015 . Three people were killed and 71 others injured in a 6.5-magnitude earthquake that struck northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Friday morning. ^ Zhang, Guohong; Shan, Xinjian; Zhang, Yingfeng; Hetland, Eric; Qu, Chunyan; Feng, Guangcai (2016). "Blind thrust rupture of the 2015 Mw 6.4 Pishan earthquake in the Northwest Tibetan Plateau by joint inversion of InSAR and seismic data" . Journal of Asian Earth Sciences . 132 : 118–128. Bibcode :2016JAESc.132..118Z . doi :10.1016/j.jseaes.2016.10.005 . ISSN 1367-9120 .
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