March 21, 2008 — An earthquake measuring 7.2 hits the remote northwestern region of Xinjiang; damage is limited.

February 2003 — At least 94 people are killed and more than 200 injured when a quake measuring 6.8 hits sparsely populated Jiashi County in Xinjiang.

January 1998 — At least 47 people are killed and more than 2,000 injured when an earthquake measuring 6.2 rocks Hebei, devastating mud and brick homes in two rural counties.

April 1997 — A strong earthquake measuring 6.6 hits Xinjiang, killing nine people and injuring 60.

January 1997 — An earthquake measuring 6.4 kills up to 50 people and injures more than 40 in Xinjiang.

May 1996 — An earthquake measuring 6.4 rocks Inner Mongolia, killing 15 people and injuring more than 200. Nearly 400 aftershocks follow.

March 1996 — An earthquake measuring 6.9 jolts Xinjiang, killing 26 people and injuring 128.

February 1996 — An earthquake measuring 7.0 wrecks the scenic mountain town of Lijiang in Yunnan, killing at least 304 people and injuring more than 16,000.

October 1995 — An earthquake in Yunnan kills 50 and injures more than 6,000. The 6.5 tremor leaves 170,000 people homeless.

April 1990 — An earthquake measuring 6.9 kills 126 people in northwestern Qinghai Province.

October 1989 — Tremors in northern Shanxi and Hebei provinces kill 29 people and leave 60,000 homeless.

November 1988 — An earthquake measuring 7.6 devastates remote areas in Yunnan, killing at least 730 people and destroying about 400,000 homes.

August 1985 — Xinjiang hit by earthquake that kills 67 people and injures more than 100. The tremor measures 7.4.

April 1985 — An earthquake measuring 6.3 kills 22 in Yunnan.

July 1976 — At least 240,000 people die when an earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale flattens the northern city of Tangshan.

(SD-Agencies)