After magnitude 4.9 and 5.0 magnitude aftershocks occurred in Dingri County, Shigatse City, Tibet, with the focal depth of both 10 kilometers.
The reporter felt two earthquakes with obvious tremors at the Dingri County Party School, about 45 kilometers away from the epicenter. According to the Earthquake Bureau of the Tibet Autonomous Region, this is the strongest aftershock after the magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Dingri County, Tibet on the 7th.
Dingri County County Mayor Tsai Dunzhu introduced that after these two aftershocks, he immediately contacted the village where the epicenter was located. There were no reports of casualties and detailed situations are under investigation.
Screenshot of CCTV footage of the CCTV in the epicenter
The reporter saw in an interview with the epicenter that day that front-line rescue personnel are currently cleaning up the ruins of private houses. All staff have evacuated the ruins before dark at around 19 o'clock, and the people in the disaster area are moving from tents into mobile houses one after another.
After the earthquake, the Tibet Autonomous Region Department of Transportation attached great importance to it and immediately arranged for the district highway development and emergency support center to dispatch the Shigatse and Ali highway maintenance departments and district high-grade highway maintenance units to patrol and investigate the damage to national and provincial trunk roads within the impact range of the earthquake.
After preliminary investigation, at 23:30 on the 13th, no blockages were found on national and provincial trunk roads such as National Highways 318, 219, Provincial Highways 515, and 303. In view of the risk of aftershocks still occurring in the subsequent situation, in order to prevent secondary disasters, the autonomous region's highway maintenance unit plans to investigate the damage to highway infrastructure in the earthquake-affected areas again on January 14.
After verified, the local power grid is operating normally. In the future, State Grid Tibet Power will continue to pay attention to the operation of power grid equipment, increase inspection efforts, and ensure the safe and stable operation of the power grid.
