Days after deadly quake, fresh 5.4 tremor jolts Tibet

More than 5,000 personnel have been deployed for rescue operations, medical assistance and relief distribution. Authorities said 12,489 residents had been evacuated by 10am on Friday. Fresh earthquakes struck Tibet on Saturday, days after a powerful 7.0-magnitude quake killed 16 people and injured at least 76 in the region. The National Centre for Seismology (NCS) recorded a magnitude 5.4 tremor at 2.09 pm IST.The latest tremors in Tibet come two days after a powerful earthquake struck Tangnezong district in Nakchu, northern Tibet, at 10.33 pm local time on Thursday, according to Chinese authorities. The disaster killed 16 people and left at least 76 injured, triggering large-scale rescue and relief operations.The earlier earthquake damaged or destroyed 339 houses and 20 livestock sheds, according to information released by the Nagqu municipal government on Friday. The USGS placed its epicentre 183 km east-north-east of Nagqu city. India's NCS recorded the quake at 8.03 pm IST on Thursday, at a depth of 173 km, with its epicentre at latitude 32.368°N and longitude 93.853°E.Over 12,000 evacuated as rescue operations continueMore than 5,000 personnel have been deployed for rescue ope...