BEIJING – The number of people injured in a magnitude 7 earthquake that struck the southwestern region of China’s Tibet has risen to 65, local government said in a social media post on Friday, while the death count remained unchanged at 16.
The quake, with an epicenter in Nagqu, a sparsely populated, high-altitude city in northern Tibet, is the strongest to hit China since January 2024.
More than 300 police officers including traffic and community police personnel were sent to the epicenter to carry out rescue and emergency relief work, the Nagqu police department said in a separate post on messaging app WeChat early on Friday.
Officers sent to the region checked for damage to homes and helped people relocate to safer locations, the Nagqu police also said in the WeChat post.
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