Magnitude 7.0 earthquake in Tibet's Nagqu kills 16 and brings down 339 homes
23 October 2026
An earthquake of magnitude 7.0 struck Tibet on the evening of 22 October 2026.
India's National Centre for Seismology recorded the time as 8:03 PM IST and placed the epicentre in Baqen County, Nagqu City, about 400 km from Lhasa, at a depth of 173 km.
Sixteen people were killed and 54 injured, 11 of them in serious condition.
The Nagqu media office said at least 339 homes and 20 livestock sheds collapsed.
Communication services were disrupted in parts of the region and railway authorities halted train services as a precaution.
More than 1,600 personnel were deployed for rescue work, with intermittent snowfall forecast over the affected area for three days.
In plain words
NCS National Centre for Seismology — India's nodal agency for monitoring earthquakes.
Epicentre Epicentre — The point on the earth's surface directly above where an earthquake originates.