An original poll showed 3, 609 houses had been destroyed in the Shigatse area of Tibet, which is home to 800, 000 people, Chinese state media reported later on Tuesday, citing regional leaders. To assist the wounded, 106 ambulances and more than 500 people were dispatched.
At least 126 people were known to have been killed and 188 injured on the Tibetan part, China’s state broadcaster CCTV reported. In Nepal or abroad, no deaths have been reported.
Heat in the high-altitude place dropped to as low as minus 18 degrees Celsius immediately, adding to the pain of those left homeless.
Houses, food supplies, electric generators and other materials had reached the page by later on Tuesday, and all sections of road damaged by the temblor had been reopened, CCTV added.
Southwestern China, Nepal, and northern India frequently experience earthquakes as a result of the collision between the Indian and Asian tectonic sheets, which are pushing up an old sea that is now known as the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau.
The plateau’s eastern and northern edges, which overlap with the Foreign counties and areas of Sichuan, Gansu, and Qinghai, are seismically active as well as the plateau’s eastern and northern rims.
Beijing, which administrates Tibet as a separate nation within China, rejects condemnation from right organizations and exiles who accuse it of violating the Tibetan people’s religious and cultural rights.
As of 8am on Wednesday, the China Earthquake Networks Centre reported that more than 500 waves measuring off to 4.4 magnitude had occurred following the collapse.
Over the past five decades, there have been 29 tremors with amplitude of 3 or over within 200km of the core of Tuesday’s temblor, according to the Sichuan country’s disaster commission.
In 2008 an 8.0 magnitude quake hit Sichuan’s Chengdu, claiming the lives of at least 70, 000 individuals, the deadliest collapse to reach China since the 1976 Tangshan collapse that killed at least 242, 000 individuals.
The disaster on Tuesday was the worst since a 6.2 % disaster in a rural northwestern region of the country in 2023, which claimed the lives of at least 149 people.