The massive Tibetan protest weren’t the only thing that struck China lately. Xinjiang, a north-western Chinese province, was struck by a 7.2-magnitude earthquake on Friday, the US Geological Survey reported.

The tremor was felt by the inhabitants of the Chinese province at 6:33 a.m. local time on Friday (2233 GMT on Thursday). Its epicenter was 140 miles (225km) south-east of Hotan city. It hit at a depth of 22.9km (14.2 miles).

The Chinese Earthquake Administration measured the earth quake at a 7.3 magnitude according to one of its spokesmen.

Xinjiang is a sparsely populated region and its inhabitants are mainly Muslim. Therefore, reports show that there weren’t any victims or damages.

The quake also had aftershocks ranging from 5.0 to 5.2 magnitudes, the Chinese Earthquake Administration wrote on its Web site.

The towns of Ahqan and Bostan, north of the Kunlun Mountains, were hit by the aftershocks. There were no reports of injuries. Some building collapsed according to the Chinese state-run television channel, CCTV, but no one was hurt.

The Xinjiang autonomous province is a very seismically active region, but Friday’s quake was the biggest so far. A similar earth quake hit the region in 2003. The tremor had 6.8 degrees on the Richter scale and hit western Xinjiang killing at least 260 people and destroying about 10,000 homes.