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At 10:30 Monday morning Beijing Time, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck in China's northwestern Xinjiang region.

More than 1,000 houses and school buildings have collapsed in a village in Bachu County, the epicenter of the earthquake.

Several other places including Jiashi County, Kashi City, Bachu County, Artux County and Markit County also felt strong tremors.

China's official news agency reports that this is the strongest earthquake to hit the region since 1949.

Preliminary Earthquake Report
U.S. Geological Survey, National Earthquake Information Center
World Data Center for Seismology, Denver

Magnitude	6.4
Date-Time	Monday, February 24, 2003 at 02:03:44 (UTC) - Coordinated Universal Time Monday, February 24, 2003 at 10:03:44 AM local time at epicenter
Location	39.63N 77.19E
Depth	33.0 kilometers
Region	SOUTHERN XINJIANG, CHINA
Reference	100 km (65 miles) E of Kashi, Xinjiang, China 220 km (135 miles) SSE of Naryn, Kyrgyzstan 310 km (190 miles) WSW of Aksu, Xinjiang, China 3330 km (2070 miles) WNW of BEIJING, Beijing, China
Location Quality	Error estimate: horizontal +/- 9.2 km; depth fixed by location program
Location Quality Parameters	Nst=72, Nph=72, Dmin=1236.8 km, Rmss=0.95 sec, Erho=9.2 km, Erzz=0 km, Gp=51.3 degrees
Source	USGS NEIC