{"id":663023,"date":"2026-10-23T10:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T10:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/663023\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T10:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T10:20:10","slug":"powerful-earthquake-hits-tibet-killing-16-people-reports-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/663023\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerful earthquake hits Tibet, killing 16 people, reports say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tibetan plateau presents challenging rescue conditionspublished at 06:12 BST<\/p>\n<p>06:12 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-qs9kpv-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/4f350159-0b0f-446e-8c64-02280d4e7af5.jpg.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Laura Bicker<br \/>China correspondent<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rescue teams on the Tibetan plateau are highly experienced as this region is prone to earthquakes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is also a region that presents some of the most challenging rescue conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The altitude around the epicentre is around 4,800 metres. This is high mountain terrain with scattered villages in steep valleys where temperatures overnight were below freezing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The region\u2019s rescue teams are used to training together and have technical knowledge of mountain terrain &#8211; they have shown an ability to mobilise quickly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In January 2025, after a powerful earthquake struck the Shigatse region of Tibet, military personnel, firefighters, police and specialist rescue teams were in the area within hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Chinese military also have drones to help survey the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tibetan plateau presents challenging rescue conditionspublished at 06:12 BST 06:12 BST Laura BickerChina correspondent Rescue teams on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[246,61,60,82],"class_list":["post-663023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}