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BEIJING — A magnitude-7.2 earthquake struck western China early today, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
The quake hit at 6:33 a.m. local time, about 140 miles southeast of Hotan in Xinjiang province, the USGS said.
Dale Grant, a USGS geophysicist, described the area as “very seismically active” but said today’s temblor was the biggest there on record.
