SAEDNEWS: The Red Cross Society of China has sent additional emergency supplies, including 50 emergency toilets, 500 family relief kits, 500 warm packs, and more than 1,000 boxes of food, to the earthquake-affected area of Xizang in southwestern China.
According to Saednews, As of 1 p.m. Friday, 16 people had been killed and 76 others injured after a magnitude-7.0 earthquake struck Baqen County in Nagqu City, Xizang, at 10:33 p.m. Thursday.
The Yunnan Branch of the Red Cross Society of China (RCSC) also dispatched a public health emergency response team to the affected areas as part of the latest relief efforts.
Previously, the RCSC had sent a working team to the disaster-hit area to coordinate local relief efforts and allocated 3,800 sets of relief supplies, including family relief kits, hygiene kits, heaters, tents, jackets, folding beds and quilts.
Policemen transfer relief supplies in Baqen County, Nagqu City, southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, Oct. 23, 2026. (Xinhua/Tenzin Nyida)
The Western Theater Command of the Chinese People's Liberation Army coordinated ground and air forces to assess the damage and conduct search-and-rescue operations. More than 400 military personnel, militiamen and police officers from local units had been deployed. By 5 p.m. Friday, they had helped relocate and resettle nearly 500 affected residents.
The theater command also deployed military drones to conduct aerial surveys of several villages within a 20-kilometer radius of the epicenter and inspect the area for potential secondary disasters.
Local authorities said that, as of 6 p.m. Friday, no missing persons had been reported following the earthquake.
An analysis by experts at the China Earthquake Networks Center indicated that the earthquake resulted from an extensional fault rupture, broadly consistent with the region's tectonic characteristics.
