China said on Monday (Oct 26) there had been no secondary geological disasters and no further casualties from a magnitude-7 earthquake that struck China’s southwestern region of Tibet last Friday, killing 16 people and injuring 76.

The country’s Ministry of Natural Resources said in a statement that the “impact of this earthquake on glacier lakes and glaciers within the affected area was generally minimal”

Since the earthquake there have been a total of 2,054 aftershocks, including two of at least 5.0 magnitude

Authorities completed inspections of secondary geological disasters within a 50 km (31 miles) radius of the epicentre

The quake struck Nagqu, a high-altitude city in northern Tibet, a sparsely populated region of China, and was the strongest to hit the country since January 2024

Authorities inspected 157 geological disaster hazard points, including 122 existing hazards and 35 new hazard points, the ministry said. Experts analysed 80 glacial lakes and 145 glaciers within a 50-km radius of the earthquake, they said.

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