The quake you're describing did happen, but on Thursday, October 22, 2026, not the day the post went up. The USGS put it at magnitude 7.0 at 10:33 p.m. local time (2:33 p.m. UTC), about 119 miles east-northeast of Nagqu in the Xizang (Tibet) Autonomous Region, at a shallow depth of about 11 miles. Nagqu is roughly 186 miles north of Lhasa, in sparsely populated high plateau. Reporting on the toll varies by source: AP and Reuters, citing local officials, put it at 16 dead, while Bloomberg's early report said 18. Injury counts also differ (32 in some reports, 54 to 76 in others), and Chinese state media says at least 339 homes collapsed, with more than 1,600 rescuers deployed and thousands of people relocated. Officials and AccuWeather warn of aftershocks and landslide risk on the steep terrain. The claim about it being the 13th M7.0-or-higher quake this year, and the two M7.8 quakes in the Philippines and Indonesia, come from AccuWeather's post; I haven't checked that count against the USGS catalog. For the latest figures, see AccuWeather's report or CBS News' update.
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