The Chinese state new agency Xinhua has made an embarrassing geographical error in reporting on a US news story. The boldface is added by me:
LOS ANGELES, April 24 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake measured at 4.2magnitude hit Reno city in northern California Thursday afternoon but caused no immediate injuries
The quake, followed by a series of aftershocks, shook downtown buildings for about 30 seconds, though there were no immediate reports of damage, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said.
The 4.2 temblor hit at 3:55 p.m. and was centered four miles (6.4 km) northwest of Reno, the USGS said.
"We felt it over here, but nothing came off the walls," Reno police spokesman Steve Frady said.
He said that since April 15, there have been three quakes a day in the area.
The quakes are centered in an area where scores of smaller ones have been centered in recent weeks. Temblors of magnitude 2 and higher have been occurring about every three days since a swarm of widely felt earthquakes began Feb. 28, said John Anderson of the University of Nevada, Reno's seismology laboratory.
Xinhua reported that Reno is in California, while also reporting that a local university is the "University of Nevada". Perhaps China has a position that Nevada is a "renegade" state which falsely claims not to be part of California.
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