<rss><channel><item><title>Earthquake jolts NW China, no casualties reported</title><link>http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/90882/6383677.html</link><description>An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 shook parts of northwest China's Gansu Province on Sunday. No casualties have been reported so far. But the quake damaged more than 1,000 houses in the Huangcheng Township in Yugur Autonomous Co ...</description><pubDate>2008-03-31T03:18+0200</pubDate><source>peopledaily</source><iso:language xmlns:iso="http://www.iso.org/3166">en</iso:language><guid>peopledaily-c1ba44b0c96279c0744d0a3abb325adc</guid><category>NaturalDisasters</category></item><item><title>Earthquake hits northwest China</title><link>http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/90882/6383584.html</link><description>An earthquake measuring 5 on the Richter scale hit Yugur Autonomous County of Sunan in northwestern Gansu Province, at 16:32 Sunday (Beijing Time), according to Chinese Seismological Network. 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