Follow-Up: 7.0-Magnitude Earthquake in Baqing, Tibet Kills 16, Injures 76; Over 12,400 Evacuated as NDRC Allocates 30 Million Yuan
LHASA — A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Baqing County in Nagqu City, Tibet, at around 22:33 on October 22. According to a press conference held by the Nagqu municipal government information office at 10:00 on October 23, the quake had killed 16 people and injured 76 as of 10:00 that day; 339 homes had collapsed or been damaged and 20 livestock sheds damaged; 12,489 affected residents had been safely relocated.
Xinhua reported that the China Earthquake Networks Center located the epicenter at 32.40 degrees north latitude and 93.79 degrees east longitude, at a depth of 10 kilometers. The Office of the State Council Earthquake Relief Headquarters and the Ministry of Emergency Management have raised the national earthquake emergency response to Level III and dispatched a working group to the quake zone.
The National Development and Reform Commission has urgently allocated 30 million yuan from the central budget for investment to support emergency recovery of infrastructure and public-service facilities in the Baqing disaster zone. Separately, Xinhua reported from Beijing on October 23 that the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Emergency Management had urgently disbursed 50 million yuan in central natural-disaster relief funds the same day. (GSM, from Xinhua)
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Photo: 西藏高原风光（资料图，非震区实景）。照片：Luo Shaoyang，CC BY 2.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Tibetan plateau landscape (file photo, not the quake zone). Photo: Luo Shaoyang, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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