Earthquake hit Nagqu region, southwest China, with epicenter 10 km deep
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The earthquake is the strongest to hit China since January 2024. In 2010, a 7.1 magnitude quake in Yushu resulted in nearly 3,000 deaths.
At least 16 people died and 32 were injured in the magnitude 7 earthquake that struck the Tibet region, in southwestern China, at around 10:33 pm this Thursday (local time).
According to state news agency Xinhua, citing the Nagqu City Emergency Management Department, as of 2:25 am on Friday (local time), 11 of the injured were in serious condition, while 21 had minor injuries.
Local authorities found at least two injured people in a village near the epicenter, and some houses in villages closer to the epicenter had cracks, the state broadcaster reported. The earthquake is the strongest to hit China since January 2024.
The epicenter was located in a sparsely populated, high-altitude county in Nagqu, northern Tibet, at a depth of 10 kilometers (km). The average altitude, within a radius of 5 km from the epicenter, is around 4,864 meters, according to data from the China Seismic Network Center (Cenc).
Videos released by official local media showed people leaving their homes and seeking shelter outdoors or in their cars parked on the street. One resident reported being woken up by the strong earthquake and hearing his house creaking from the tremor.
The earthquake was clearly felt in the region, Cenc reported. The epicenter was about 400 km from the Tibetan capital, Lhasa.
Local fire and rescue teams were mobilized and were on their way to the affected region.
A series of smaller tremors of magnitudes 3 and 4 were recorded in neighboring regions following the magnitude 7 quake.
In 2010, a 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck Yushu in neighboring Qinghai province, killing at least 2,698 people and leaving nearly 300 missing.

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