Beijing: An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale on Sunday jolted a Tibetan majority prefecture in China's northwestern Qinghai Province, the China Earthquake Networks Center said.
The epicenter of the quake was monitored at 32.4 degrees north latitude and 95.9 degrees east longitude with a depth of 10 km, the center said in a statement.
The Yushu prefecture, inhabited largely by Tibetans, was struck by a 7.1-magnitude earthquake last April in about 2,700 people were killed.
No casualties have been reported so far, Xinhua quoted Wen Guodong, vice-secretary of the prefectural committee of the Communist Party of China, as saying.
"We felt the quake strongly in Nangchen, but near our office we haven't found any collapsed buildings," said Drimi Lhundrup, deputy chief of the county government.
The county is about 185 km south of Gyegu Town, the seat of the Yushu prefectural government and the epicenter of the 7.1-magnitude earthquake that struck in April 2010.
Post-quake rebuilding began in Yushu on June 20, 2010, and hundreds of new homes and public facilities have been built.
The government's three-year rebuilding plan will cost an estimated $ 4.86 billion.
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