Strong 7-magnitude earthquake hits China's Tibet region, killing 16 and injuring dozens, state media reports

A magnitude-7 earthquake has struck China's south-western region of Tibet, killing 16 people and injuring 32 others, state news agency Xinhua has reported. A magnitude 7 earthquake hit China's Tibet region on Thursday evening, killing at least 16 people, injuring 32 and collapsing hundreds of homes, official media said. More than a dozen people were killed when a magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit China's Tibet, according to local officials.

BEIJING: A magnitude 7 earthquake hit China’s Tibet region on Thursday evening, killing at least 16 people, injuring 32 and collapsing hundreds of homes in the northern regional city of Nagqu, official media said. Search and rescue efforts continued following the collapse of at least 339 homes, the Nagqu media office said, citing city government officials. Among the injured, 11 people were in serious condition and the other 21 sustained minor injuries, the media office said.

BEIJING (AP) — A magnitude 7 earthquake hit China’s Tibet region on Thursday evening, killing at least 16 people, injuring 46 and collapsing hundreds of homes in the northern regional city of Nagqu, official media said. Among the injured, 11 people were in serious condition and the other 35 sustained minor injuries, the media office said. More than 1,600 people from the local county were deployed for rescue efforts.

Supplies including 1,000 prefabricated housing units, around 3,000 tents and folding beds, as well as flashlights and winter clothing arrived in the region. It was the biggest earthquake in the region in the last five years, China’s national broadcaster CCTV said. Geological Survey said the quake occurred at 10:33 p.m.

local time, with its epicenter 191 kilometers (119 miles) east-northeast of Nagqu, in a sparsely populated, high-altitude area of northern Tibet. It put the earthquake’s depth at 18 kilometers (11 miles). China’s official Xinhua News Agency cited the China Earthquake Networks Center as putting the depth at 10 kilometers (6.2 miles).

Nagqu is more than 300 kilometers (186 miles) north of Tibet’s capital, Lhasa. At least 16 people have died and dozens were injured after a magnitude 7 earthquake struck China's Tibet region on Thursday, according to state news agency Xinhua.