The first quake *struck at 7:49 in the morning, just as people in the town of Yushu were getting ready for the day. Registering 6.9, the earthquake drove residents out onto the streets as their homes toppled over. Six aftershocks followed in quick succession in the next three hours, all *but one *measuring a magnitude above five. The main quake was centered on the Tibetan plateau, an average of 12,000 feet above sea level, in mountains dividing Qinghai province in western China from the Tibet autonomous region. A poor and remote area, that county nearest the epicenter, has nearly 90,000 people, mostly Tibet herders and farmers.
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The first quake *struck at 7:49 in the morning, just as people in the town of Yushu were getting ready for the day. Registering 6.9, the earthquake drove residents out onto the streets as their homes toppled over. Six aftershocks followed in quick succession in the next three hours, all *but one *measuring a magnitude above five. The main quake was centered on the Tibetan plateau, an average of 12,000 feet above sea level, in mountains dividing Qinghai province in western China from the Tibet autonomous region. A poor and remote area, that county nearest the epicenter, has nearly 90,000 people, mostly Tibet herders and farmers.