Beijing: Locals and tourists sought shelter after a powerful earthquake rocked a remote area of northwest China on Monday morning.
No serious injuries or property damage were reported from the 7.49 a.m. earthquake that shook the Xinjiang region, according to the official Xinhua news agency.

CCTV footage from state media showed people running from the airport's departure hall as the ground shook in the background. As the sun began to rise over the area's Shahe County, ground crew could be seen inspecting the exterior of the airport.

The earthquake was reported to have a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 by the China Earthquake Networks Center and 5.7 by the US Geological Survey.

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Xinjiang is one of the most seismically unstable regions of China and a vast, resource-rich region of mountains and deserts, although most earthquakes occur in sparsely populated areas outside major cities.

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Investigators were monitoring the substation, but there had been no disruption to the region's power grid, oil and gas production, or petrochemical industries, according to Xinhua.

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A 2008 magnitude 7.9 earthquake in Sichuan province, south of Xinjiang, which killed nearly 90,000 people, was the deadliest recent earthquake in China.