AN EARTHQUAKE killed at least 118 people in a cold and mountainous region in north-west China, provincial officials said yesterday, in the nation’s deadliest quake in 10 years.

Emergency authorities in Gansu province issued an appeal for 300 additional workers to comb through collapsed buildings and for other search-and-rescue operations. 

Officials in neighbouring Qinghai reported 20 people missing in a landslide, according to Chinese media.