A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Baqen County in Nagqu, Tibet. Official reports state 16 deaths and over 10,000 people affected and displaced. The Western Theater Command's decision to send only drones for post-disaster surveillance has sparked public questioning.
According to a report by Sound of Hope, on October 17, 2026, Zhenping County in Ankang, Shaanxi was hit by a heavy rainstorm, which caused the local roadbed to be washed away by floodwaters. Prior to this, the local meteorological observatory had issued an orange rainstorm warning signal, alerting people to guard against the disaster risks brought by heavy rainfall.
A October 5 report by Lianhe Zaobao about the China-Nepal joint scientific expedition team traveling to Nepal to investigate the causes of the disaster and support the rebuilding of the Gyirong port noted that the casualty statistics it cited were still as of September 5.
On October 3, Yonhap News Agency reported that the official casualty statistics for the "August 26" mudslide disaster in Gyirong, Tibet, remain at 43 dead and 519 missing as of 18:00 on September 5, with no update for nearly a month since, and authorities have not disclosed the whereabouts of the missing.
On the morning of September 16, 2026, a landslide occurred at a stone dam in Mao County, Aba, Sichuan. Earth and rock blocked National Highway 213 and the Min River, damaging the river channel. Local authorities have activated emergency response, closed the national highway in both directions and guided traffic onto detours. Casualties remain unknown.
On the morning of September 14, 2026, Wancheng Town, Wanning City, Hainan Province was struck by an EF3–EF4 tornado, damaging the playground facilities of Beijing Normal University Wanning Experimental School, with no casualties. Due to the combined effect of the residual vortex of a South China Sea tropical low and cold air, the province has been experiencing continuous extreme heavy rainfall since September 11. The main external road of Wuzhishan City was completely blocked, allowing only emergency rescue vehicles, and floods caused severe losses for local farmers.
According to official Chinese Communist Party (CCP) reports, 43 deaths have been confirmed in the mudslide disaster at Gyirong Port, while 519 people remain missing; on the day the disaster occurred, there were only two survivors, both local villagers who escaped on their own, and the number of survivors has not increased many days after rescue operations began.
On September 6, 2026, CCTV News reported the latest casualties from the August 26 major mudslide disaster in Gyirong County, Tibet. Officials confirmed that 43 people have been killed and 519 remain missing, but a detailed list of the victims has not yet been released.
On the tenth day after the disaster at the Gyirong Port border, Nepalese rescue forces successfully rescued Chinese worker Lu Haitao from a tunnel buried by a mudslide, demonstrating the scale and persistence of local rescue operations.
On September 5, 2026, the BBC reported that on the ninth day after the catastrophic flash floods on the Nepal-Tibet border, multiple survivors were rescued from a hydropower station tunnel. The disaster caused heavy casualties in both China and Nepal, with Tibetan officials reporting dozens dead and hundreds missing.
On September 5 local time, a joint rescue team made up of Nepalese military personnel and South Korean disaster rescue experts rescued 49-year-old Chinese worker Lu Haitao, from Anyang, Henan, who had been trapped for 11 days, from a 225-meter-long hydropower station tunnel in Rasuwa in northern Nepal. His condition is stable, and Chinese Ambassador to Nepal Zhang Maoming subsequently went to the hospital to visit him.
Nepal police announced on September 5 that as of local time September 5, 1,344 bodies of victims had been recovered from the disaster, with another 4,898 people missing; approximately 900 workers at 12 hydropower projects across the country are missing, of whom about 500 are trapped inside tunnels.
According to a program on Luther Society, officials last updated the casualty figures for the Nepal earthquake on September 5, reporting 43 dead and 519 missing, totaling 562, and have not released any specific casualty updates since then.
On September 3, 2026, Australian media and the HiRISK organization released an investigation indicating that satellites had recorded signs of glacial instability weeks before the mudslide disaster on the Nepal-Tibet border, and disclosed that China significantly lagged in sharing cross-border hydrological early warning data.
Surviving workers at a Nepali hydropower project said that before the flood arrived, workers noticed something abnormal and demanded to evacuate the tunnel, but were stopped by the Chinese supervisor. The supervisor said they should go out first to check, then fled on his own and never returned, leaving a large number of workers trapped in the tunnel.