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BEIJING (AP) - Chinese authorities relocated 8,250 people after a strong earthquake damaged and destroyed thousands of mud brick houses in the far western Xinjiang region, state media said Sunday.
The magnitude-6.1 quake hit northern Xinjiang's mountainous Tekes county at 6:06 p.m. on Friday, the official Xinhua News Agency said. Xinhua quoted an official, whose name was not given, as saying there were no deaths reported.
But more than 2,120 homes were destroyed or made too dangerous to live in, it said.
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