A total of 220 aftershocks have jolted Akqi County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region by Monday night, after Friday's 5.2 magnitude earthquake, Xinhua quoted local authorities as saying. In total, 14,800 people have been affected. Direct economic loss reached nearly 60 million yuan (8.8 million U.S. dollars). No casualties have been reported, an Akqi county government official said. Some 260 households have been relocated to schools and office buildings, he said. The government has distributed 100 tons of coal, 73 tons of flour, 20 tons of rice, 10 tons of boiled oil and 600 sets of clothes and shoes to the quake-hit areas. Two hundred tents and 400 quilts are expected to arrive in Akqion Tuesday. The quake occurred at the juncture of Kalpin and Akqi counties, in the Tianshan Mountains, late Friday afternoon. It is 35 km from the county seats of Kalpin and Akqi, and about 1,200 km from the region's capital Urumqi.
