[6] The earthquakes were also felt in the nearby cities of Tianshui and Lanzhou in Gansu, as well as Xi'an, Baoji, and Xianyang in neighbouring Shaanxi.

[7] Most of the casualties occurred in Min County, located 15 kilometres (9 mi) from the epicenter,[7] which reported 87 deaths.

[6] (Source:[9]) On the day of the earthquakes, General-secretary of CCP and Chinese President Xi Jinping ordered "all-out rescue efforts".

By afternoon the two top leaders of Gansu Province, Communist Party secretary Wang Sanyun and Governor Liu Weiping, along with 1,800 police officers and local officials, had arrived in the earthquake-stricken area.

The People's Liberation Army's Lanzhou Military Region, which is headquartered 230 kilometres (143 mi) from the disaster zone, had sent 1,078 troops to join the relief efforts by mid-afternoon.