China Central Television reported that the quake, centered in the Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Qinghai province, left 5,000 people homeless.
These include direct investments in glass-making in Shanghai, a computer disc-drive venture in Harbin, and a proposed potash plant in far-west Qinghai province.
Further acquaintance might discover deeper patterns; or perhaps its patterns respond too closely to the folk-music of Qinghai Province on the Tibetan border, where Sheng spent his formative years, for Western ears to cotton on to them easily.
A severe earthquake last April hit an area less than 124 miles away in neighboring Qinghai province, killing 126 people. Aftershocks from that quake also were felt in Lanzhou.
Others took a bus to neighboring Qinghai province or the Nepalese border, she said.
An official at the bureau, contacted by telephone, said there was no information about damage or injuries and efforts were being made to contact the seismological bureau in Xining, the Qinghai capital.
Worker's Daily said 8,000 miners and 1,000 of their vehicles were trapped by blizzards in May in the Hoh Xil Lake area of Qinghai province, more than 16,500 feet above sea level.