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More than 1,600 people from the local county were deployed for
rescue efforts. Supplies including 1,000 prefabricated housing
units, around 3,000 tents and folding beds, as well as
flashlights and winter clothing arrived in the region.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake occurred at 10:33 p.m.
local time, with its epicenter 191 kilometers (119 miles)
east-northeast of Nagqu, in a sparsely populated, high-altitude
area of northern Tibet. It put the earthquake’s depth at 18
kilometers (11 miles).
The U.S. agency recorded at least seven aftershocks with
magnitude between 4.3 and 5.2, all of them with a depth of 10
kilometers (6 miles) , according to its website
China’s official news agency Xinhua said on Friday that
communication in some areas hit by the quake was down. Local
railway authorities have taken emergency actions to halt trains
passing through the region.
The earthquake also caused rockfalls that have forced local
authorities to close a section of National Highway 317, allowing
only emergency, rescue and official support vehicles through as
crews worked to clear debris, according to Xinhua.
Intermittent snows are expected in the earthquake region over
the next three days, Xinhua said.
It was the biggest earthquake in the region in the last five
years, China's national broadcaster CCTV said.
Chinese President Xi Jinping called for all-out efforts in
rescue operations and medical relief work.
Nagqu is more than 300 kilometers (186 miles) north of Tibet’s
capital, Lhasa.
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