Magnitude-7 earthquake strikes Tibet, killing 16 and injuring 32

🗞️ Story file #845

Magnitude-7 earthquake strikes Tibet, killing 16 and injuring 32

Oct 22, 6 PM ET to Oct 24, 11 AM ET

13outlets carried it
🫏5 · 3 · 5🐘left · center · right
1.7 dayson the front pages
13front pages at once, at its peak
57 sof TV captions
6radio newscasts
7people retold it online

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

Oct 22, 6 PM ETfirst on a front page: AP
Oct 22, 7 PM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
Oct 23, 2 AM ETfirst on the radio: ABC News Update
Oct 23, 7 PM ETpeak: on 13 front pages
Oct 24, 8 AM ETretold online by 7 people

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 22, 6 PM to Oct 24, 11 AM ET (peak 13), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📡 wire copy: 2 outlets ran the AP, Reuters headline nearly word for word (Los Angeles Times, Newsmax)

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 earthquake hits tibet 🐘 magnitude 7

✏️ 4 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

AP (2 wordings): “A 7.0 earthquake hits China’s Tibet, killing 16 and injuring 32” → “A 7.0 earthquake hits China’s Tibet, killing 16 and injuring 32 - AP News”
CBS News (2 wordings): “At least 16 dead when powerful 7.0 magnitude earthquake strikes Tibet” → “At least 16 people killed by powerful earthquake in Tibet”
Reuters (5 wordings): “Earthquake of magnitude 7 strikes China's Tibet, killing 16, Xinhua reports - Reuters” → “Injuries in China's Tibet rises to 76 after earthquake, death toll remains at 16”
The Guardian (2 wordings): “Magnitude-7 earthquake kills at least 16, hundreds of homes destroyed” → “Magnitude-7 earthquake hits Tibet, killing at least 16 and destroying hundreds of homes”

Every outlet's first headline (13), left to right by AllSides rating

The Guardian Magnitude-7 earthquake kills at least 16, hundreds of homes destroyed Oct 23, 1 AM ET
AP A 7.0 earthquake hits China’s Tibet, killing 16 and injuring 32 Oct 22, 6 PM ET
CBS News At least 16 dead when powerful 7.0 magnitude earthquake strikes Tibet Oct 22, 6 PM ET
CNN Strong 7-magnitude earthquake hits China’s Tibet region, killing 16 and injuring dozens, state media reports Oct 22, 6 PM ET
Los Angeles Times A 7.0 earthquake hits Tibet, killing 16 and injuring 32 Oct 22, 7 PM ET
BBC Powerful earthquake hits Tibet killing 16 people, reports say Oct 22, 8 PM ET
Bloomberg Powerful Tibet Earthquake Kills 18 People and Injures 32 Others Oct 22, 5 PM ET
Reuters Earthquake of magnitude 7 strikes China's Tibet, killing 16, Xinhua reports - Reuters Oct 22, 6 PM ET
The Epoch Times Earthquake of Magnitude 7 Strikes China’s Tibet, Killing at Least 16: State Media Oct 23, 2 AM ET
Breitbart Earthquake in Tibet Kills At Least 16, Destroys Hundreds of Homes Oct 23, 7 PM ET
IJR Magnitude 7.0 Earthquake Strikes Tibet Oct 22, 3 PM ET
New York Post Powerful earthquake in China collapses hundreds of homes, kills at least 16 people Oct 23, 4 AM ET
Newsmax A 7.0 Earthquake Hits China’s Tibet, Killing 16 and Injuring 32 Oct 22, 6 PM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

BBC News57 s

7.0 magnitude earthquake strikes northern Tibet BBC News, 57 s

📻 On the radio

ABC News Update, Oct 23, 1:06 PM ET: story 7 of 7
ABC News Update, Oct 23, 5:32 AM ET: story 5 of 5
NPR News Now, Oct 23, 5:09 AM ET: story 6 of 7
ABC News Update, Oct 23, 4:32 AM ET: story 5 of 5
ABC News Update, Oct 23, 3:32 AM ET: story 4 of 4
ABC News Update, Oct 23, 2:32 AM ET: story 5 of 5

🎙️ Shows, investigators, satire

🎙️ 🎙️ CNN 5 Things

what people online made of it

🧩 How it's being told

The stories under this news, from our motif index, and who told each: the shows we follow by their lean, people online, fact-checkers. A story people tell, not a claim that it's true; claims are matched to this story by our tools, so a link can be wrong.

🧩 Act of God 🧶 online
“A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Tibet, killing at least 16 people and collapsing hundreds of homes.”

🧶 Retold online

A magnitude 7.0 earthquake in Tibet has killed at least 16 people and left hundreds trapped. Oct 24: told by 7 people; told before on Oct 23
🦋 Widely seen on Bluesky

🦋 a post on Bluesky · 39 likes, 18 reposts
🦋 a post on Bluesky · 4 likes, 2 reposts

On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.

🗣️ names in it: Tibet China Tibet Autonomous Region

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.