A magnitude 4.5 earthquake struck China's Tibet early on Friday. The tremor came roughly 24 hours after a magnitude 7 quake killed at least 16 people.Hundreds of houses collapsed due to the tremors of the 7-magnitude earthquake that rattled China's Tibet on Thursday, October 22.
A fresh earthquake of magnitude 4.5 hit China's Tibet Autonomous Region in the early hours of Friday, according to India's National Center for Seismology. This comes roughly 30 hours after a strong 7-magnitude earthquake rattled the region and claimed at least 16 lives.The latest earthquake originated at a depth of 10 km, the National Center for Seismology said.
Besides the fatalities, the earlier earthquake reportedly left 76 people injured.A trail of destruction was also left behind as hundreds of homes collapsed due to the tremors, per the Chinese state media. The location of the earthquake that hit Tibet on Thursday, October 22, was located at Nagqu, a city north of Tibet's capital Lhasa.- Ends(With inputs from agencies)