Major earthquake hits China-Kyrgyzstan border

People gather in a street after leaving their flats in apartment buildings after the earthquake in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on Jan 22, 2024. - AP

BEIJING: A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck along the mountainous China-Kyrgyzstan border on Tuesday (Jan 23), injuring at least three people.

Local authorities dispatched a team to the quake's epicentre, Beijing's Xinhua state news agency said, while some 800 people were on standby for any large disaster relief mission.