Earthquake In Tibet : Rescuers Had To Be Swift And Fast To Search For Survivors As Buildings Collapsed

Rescuers raced against time to search for survivors under the rubble of collapsed buildings in frigid weather amid hundreds of aftershocks, a day after a massive quake hit a Tibetan county while another county in the neighbouring Qinghai province was jolted by a 5.5 magnitude tremor few days back .

Local officials said no casualties have been reported due to Wednesday’s quake that hit the Madoi County in Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Qinghai province of northwest China at 3:44 pm (Beijing time), tremors for which were also felt in north-eastern Nepal.

The epicentre was at a depth of 14 km, according to the China Earthquake Networks Centre. This region forms part of the sprawling Tibetan plateau with average altitude of 13,000 to 15,000 feet.

At least 126 people were killed and 188 injured in Tuesday’s quake at Dingri county in Xigaze in China’s Tibet Autonomous Region in China on Tuesday that witnessed a magnitude 6.8 quake.

The Dingri county, part of the holy town of Shigaste, which is close to the India-Tibet-Nepal trijunction, was hit by 646 aftershocks as of Wednesday.

According to PTI, The largest aftershock had a magnitude of 4.4, and was about 18 km from the epicentre, Hong Li, head of the regional emergency management department told the official media.

Nepal’s Earthquake Monitoring Centre also confirmed hundreds of aftershocks on 8th January. But we didn’t record (all) officially, as the epicentre lies outside of the country, Lok Bijaya Adhikari, Centre’s chief said.