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A 7.3-magnitude quake hit Southern Qinghai, China early Saturday. The quake was centered about 10 kilometers (6 miles) deep in central China, about 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) north of an earlier quake.USGS geophysicist Jonathan Tytell said the agency expects "significant economic losses" and damage from the quake, but that it's centered in a mostly rural area. There were no immediate reports of deaths.
Wow, 7.3 is pretty big, right?
Very. Had it been near Yushu (population ~400K) 10s of thousands would probably have died, and had it been near provincial capital Xining (population ~2.2M) the death toll might have gone into the 100s of thousands.