Mapping the 7.0-magnitude quake in Tibet, China

Here’s the intensity of the quake across the region.

The 7.0-magnitude quake struck China’s southwestern region of Tibet, injuring at least two people in a village near the epicentre, with some houses in villages closest to the epicentre showing cracks.

The epicentre of the quake was in a sparsely populated, high-altitude county in Nagqu, northern Tibet.

The China Earthquake Networks Centre said the quake struck at a depth of 10km. The average elevation within 5km of the epicentre is about 4,864m.

Here’s where the quake struck and where the aftershocks with magnitudes above 2.5 were recorded.