Kathmandu: Two back-to-back earthquakes hit Tibet on Thursday night, weeks after deadly flash floods and landslides devastated the Nepal-Tibet border region.
The first quake was a powerful one, measuring 7 on the Richter scale.
The China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC) said the earthquake struck at around 10.33 pm local time (8.03 pm IST) in a county in Nagqu, northern Tibet.
The epicentre, around 400 km from Tibetan capital of Lhasa and 489 km north-north-west of Arunachal Pradesh’s Pandin, was located at a relatively shallow depth of 10 km, according to CENC data and the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ).
Around half hour later, at around 11.12 pm local time (8.42 pm IST), another tremor of magnitude 5 hit the region, this one some 323 km north-north-west of Arunachal Pradesh’s Basar. The depth of the quake was 15 km, the NCS data showed.
There was no immediate information on casualties or damage caused by the twin earthquakes. Further details about its impact are awaited.
On August 26, flash floods and landslides left more than 1,400 people dead and thousands missing.
The collapse of a glacier near the border between Nepal and China’s Tibet Autonomous Region triggered landslides and flash flooding that swept through downstream valleys.