On Thursday, 22 October, at 22:33 local time, a magnitude 7 earthquake struck the Tibet autonomous region. USGS: the epicentre 191 km east-northeast of Nagqu, depth 18 km, more than 300 km north of Lhasa. Xinhua: Baqên county, in Nagqu. It is not the Tingri quake of January 2025.

USGS counted at least seven aftershocks between 4.3 and 5.2, at 10 km. BBC, after Chinese state media: more than 400 aftershocks. Two counts, different thresholds. Not a closed list.

HotNews, after local authorities quoted by Reuters and The Guardian: at least 16 dead and 65 injured. Xinhua, after the Nagqu emergency bureau: 16 dead and 32 injured. Two figures for the injured. The search continues. Not the final toll.

Local officials, in HotNews: at least 339 homes and 20 animal shelters collapsed. More than 1,600 people are searching, including 300 police. Aid has arrived: 1,000 prefabricated homes, about 3,000 tents and folding beds, lanterns, winter clothes. BBC: local media speak of more than 12,400 people moved. A relocation. Not housing for everyone.

Xinhua: in some areas, power and telecommunications were cut; trains in the region were stopped; a stretch of national road was closed, with access only for emergencies. BBC: by Friday morning, power was back in some places. Not the grid restored.

Source consulted: Cutremur puternic, cu magnitudinea 7, în Tibet. Cel puțin 16 morți — HotNews.

Image: Nagqu railway station, 14 July 2009, Bernt Rostad, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The station, not the collapsed houses.

Sources consulted: 16 dead after 7.0-magnitude quake hits China's Xizang — Xinhua.