China says no secondary disasters, casualties from Tibet earthquake

China said on Monday there had been no secondary geological disasters and no further casualties from a magnitude-7 earthquake that struck China's southwestern region of Tibet last Friday, killing 16 people and injuring 76.



The country's Ministry of Natural Resources said in a statement that the "impact of this earthquake on glacier lakes and glaciers within the affected area was generally minimal"



Since the earthquake there have been a total of 2,054 aftershocks, including two of at least 5.0 magnitude



Authorities completed inspections of secondary geological disasters within a 50 km radius of the epicentre