Chinese authorities have activated a level-four disaster-relief emergency response after a 4.8-magnitude earthquake jolted Yongning County in Yinchuan, the capital of northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, on Thursday, APA reports citing Xinhua.
A work team has been dispatched to aid local relief operations in the affected areas, according to the Ministry of Emergency Management.
The epicenter of the earthquake was located at a latitude of 38.4 degrees north and a longitude of 106.22 degrees east, which struck at a depth of 10 kilometers, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.
No casualties have been reported.
At 4:43 p.m. (Beijing Time) on Thursday, another earthquake -- this one with a magnitude of 4.6 -- jolted Jinfeng District in Yinchuan, the center said.
The epicenter of the second quake was located at a latitude of 38.41 degrees north and a longitude of 106.26 degrees east, according to the center.
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