Magnitude 7.0 earthquake in Tibet kills at least 16, Chinese state media report
Photo: CBS NewsA magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Tibet at 10:33 p.m. local time Thursday, killing at least 16 people and injuring 32, Xinhua reported, citing local emergency officials. Eleven of the injured were in serious condition, Xinhua said. The U.S. Geological Survey placed the epicenter about 119 miles east-northeast of Nagqu, in a sparsely populated, mountainous area. More than 300 homes collapsed, and power was mostly cut. Authorities activated a level-II emergency response and sent rescue teams, but rockfall closed roads and slowed access. CCTV called it the region's biggest quake in five years. It follows glacier-collapse flooding on the Tibet-Nepal border less than two months ago.
Right-leaning outlets tracked by Crosswire had not reported this story at the time of writing; left-leaning and alternative/independent outlets had. Left-leaning coverage leads with the toll and home collapses, citing the USGS, Xinhua and CCTV, and notes the USGS and Chinese depth estimates differ. Alternative outlets also rely on Xinhua but add the injury breakdown, closed roads, power loss, rescue deployment and videos of residents sheltering outdoors. Both sides link the quake to the earlier flooding.
How the sides differ Left sources stress official figures and differing depth estimates; alternative sources add road, power and injury details; right sources have not covered the story.
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CBS and CNN lead with the death toll and magnitude, citing the USGS, Xinhua and CCTV. CBS adds collapsed homes, differing depth estimates and the earlier flooding.
BBC and Al Jazeera cite Xinhua and local officials, adding injury details, emergency response, road closures, power loss, residents sheltering outside, and the earlier floods or the quake's rank in China.
Not covering this story. None of the right-leaning outlets Crosswire tracks has reported it yet. What one side leaves out can be as telling as what the others report.