‘Magnitude 7.1 earthquake hits remote western China’

People gather in a street after leaving their flats in Almaty, Kazakhstan, after the earthquake (Vladimir Tretyakov/NUR.KZ via AP)

A magnitude 7.1 earthquake has struck a remote part of China’s western Xinjiang region, state-run Xinhua News Agency has reported.

The earthquake rocked Wushu county in Aksu prefecture just after 2am local time, Xinhua cited the China Earthquake Networks Centre as saying.