A 6.2 magnitude earthquake that struck northwestern China around midnight Monday has left 126 people dead in Gansu and neighboring Qinghai provinces, with President Xi Jinping calling for all-out search and rescue efforts amid freezing weather, according to Chinese state-run media.The 11:59 p.m. quake, which occurred at a depth of 10 kilometers in Gansu's Jishishan county some 100 km southwest of the provincial capital Lanzhou, also injured over 700 people and damaged more than 7,000 houses in the area, local reports said Tuesday.Many houses have collapsed and infrastructure related to wate…READ FULL ARTICLE
