Fact Box

• Time: 7:45 a.m. Beijing Time, July 22
• Magnitude: 6.6
• Location: Juncture area of Minxian and
  Zhangxian counties, northwest China's
  Gansu Province
• Depth: 20 kilometers
  
• Latitude: 34.5 degrees north latitude 
  
• Longitude: 104.2 degrees east longitude
  

Backgrounder: Strong earthquakes in China since 2011

A chronology of earthquakes above 6.0 -magnitudes that occurred in China since 2001