2026-10-20
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.
2026-10-17
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.
2026-10-05
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.
2026-10-03
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.
2026-09-16
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.
2026-09-14
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.
2026-09-10
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.
2026-09-06
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.
Location: Shigatse, Tibet ·
Importance III ·
Verification: Official claim ·
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2026-09-05
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.
2026-09-05
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.
2026-09-05
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.
2026-09-05
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.
2026-09-05
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.
2026-09-03
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.
2026-09-03
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.
2026-09-03
Official propaganda said the Ministry of Emergency Management put aeromagnetic “Spirit” drones into use in the Gyirong mudslide disaster area, flying low-altitude patrols that penetrate the rubble to lock onto metal objects with strong magnetic fields, providing coordinates for search and rescue, and claimed that weak magnetic field signals had already been detected.
Location: Gyirong County, Tibet ·
Importance II ·
Verification: Official claim ·
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2026-09-03
According to the Associated Press, local rescuers and the government in Nepal have set up simple cableways in the landslide-stricken area to send rescued residents back to their affected homes to see whether they can salvage remaining belongings.
2026-09-02
On September 3, 2026, due to heavy rainfall, a landslide occurred at Rui'an No. 6 Middle School in Rui'an City, Wenzhou, Zhejiang. Mud and rock buried some vehicles on campus, and severe flooding occurred in multiple parts of the urban area.
2026-09-02
According to data released by the Chinese Communist Party, on September 2 the roads leading to the disaster area were all repaired and cleared; a total of 7 teams and more than 2,500 personnel, 500 vehicle sorties of search and rescue vehicles, and more than 9,000 sets of search and rescue equipment were deployed in the relief effort, with drones air-dropping 5.43 tons of supplies, of which the People's Liberation Army and the People's Armed Police cumulatively deployed 500 person-times and 4 helicopter sorties.
2026-09-02
According to official sources, on the afternoon of September 2, multiple military forces entered the Gyirong mudslide disaster area to carry out in-depth search and rescue as well as disinfection and epidemic prevention work.
Location: Gyirong County, Tibet ·
Importance III ·
Verification: Official claim ·
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2026-09
Floods and mudslides occurred in the border area between Nepal and Tibet, with rescue workers continuing search and rescue operations and providing assistance; Water Mission dispatched a five-person team to Nepal to help restore safe drinking water supplies.
2026-09
After mudslides destroyed multiple hydropower stations, the Nepalese government set up a dedicated research group and proposed reconsidering its hydropower development strategy centered on diversion-type hydropower stations.
2026-09
Nepal has deployed a total of more than 25,000 military and police personnel in mudslide disaster relief operations, including 9,287 army soldiers, 7,912 police officers, and 4,203 armed police, rescuing and relocating a total of 13,396 people, with the entire relief process conducted openly before the world's media.
2026-08-30
After re-examining monitoring data, the US Geological Survey said the signal initially interpreted as an earthquake came from a glacier and rockfall; about 3 hours after the collapse, another event equivalent to magnitude 4.2 was recorded.
2026-08-29
Nepal has reported that floods at the Gyirong border crossing have killed 626 people and left 2,426 missing, with 14,829 military, armed police and police security personnel participating in search and rescue operations.
2026-08-29
Chinese authorities released disaster figures for the Tibetan side, saying 7 people were killed, 554 were missing, and 2 others were rescued.
2026-08-27
About 26 hours after the disaster, two Chinese rescue helicopters arrived in the affected area; the Western Theater Command, the Tibet Military Region and the armed police dispatched a total of about 500 personnel, and drones were used to carry out disaster-relief-related work.
2026-08-27
On August 27, 2026, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi posted on a social media platform, expressing deep grief over the major disaster caused by a severe mudslide that suddenly struck the China-Nepal border region in Tibet, mourning the victims and offering condolences to the affected people.
2026-08-26
On the morning of August 26, a flash flood and mudslide originating in northern Nepal struck the China-Nepal border, washing away a dam under construction near Gyirong Port. Chinese authorities reported that evening that the disaster in Gyirong County had left 3 dead and 265 missing. China launched a national level II disaster relief response, and Tibet launched a level I response.
2026-08-26
In August 2026, mudslides struck Tibet's Gyirong port and the Nepal border, heavily damaging Shafurubixi Town; the Shala Highway built by Tibet Tianlu was seriously damaged, and Chinese casualties remain unknown.
2026-08-26
After the disaster, social media circulated claims that China's building of border "moderately prosperous villages" (xiaokang villages) in high Himalayan regions and mountain-cutting and slope-slicing projects near Gyirong damaged the ecology, triggered an avalanche and caused flash floods. An account focusing on investigative reporting in Nepal, Nepal Correspondence, called this a "deliberate ecological disaster"; there is no solid evidence to confirm it. Meanwhile, disaster videos within China were quickly deleted.
2026-08-24
A sudden earthquake and large-scale mudslide natural disaster near Gyirong Port, on the border between China and Nepal, has caused serious missing persons and property losses, drawing outside attention to local rescue efforts and human environmental factors.
Location: Kuala Lumpur Port, Tibet ·
Importance III ·
Verification: Reported ·
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2026-08-11
On August 11, 2026, due to river backflow caused by Typhoon "White Dolphin," the Sheshan Silver Lake Villa community in Sijing Town, Songjiang, Shanghai, was severely flooded. Water, electricity, and food supplies were cut off for more than 20 hours, and residents fell into paralysis after repeated failed attempts to seek help.
2026-08-10
A 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck Colombia, causing at least 130 deaths and damaging hundreds of buildings. President Avilardo has declared a state of national emergency.
2026-08-08
At 13:40 on August 8, 2026, the last missing person in the mudslide disaster in Zhashui County, Shangluo, Shaanxi was found and confirmed dead. CCTV said the disaster killed 3 people in total.
2026-08
Nepal's National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority issued a special alert about an hour and a half after the flash flood, ordering evacuations in riverside counties, and has continued to update the situation, search and rescue progress, lists of the rescued and missing, and hospital information.
2026-08
A severe mudslide disaster suddenly struck Shigatse, Tibet. Official reports claim three deaths and multiple missing, with actual casualties being severe.
2026-08
The government of Xiaoyi Town, Hengzhou, Guangxi offered affected villagers a subsidy of several hundred yuan per household and person, demanding that villagers sign to accept their losses and classifying the flood as a natural disaster.
2026-08
According to Reuters, landslides in the Terai river basin in late August 2026 destroyed at least 12 hydropower plants in Nepal, rendering them irreparable and causing huge investment losses.
2026-08
The Trishuli 3A hydropower plant was completed and put into operation in 2019, with a capacity of 60 megawatts. It was financed by the Export-Import Bank of China and built by China Gezhouba Group, and was destroyed in a mudslide in August 2026, beyond repair.
2026-08
The nearly completed Trishuli 1 Hydropower Plant, financed by the World Bank and other institutions, with a total investment of $647 million and a capacity of 216 megawatts, was destroyed in a mudslide in August 2026, wiping out the investment.
2026-07-24
After the July 17 landslide in Chongqing, rescue and clearing work has proceeded slowly, and officials released no information about survivors for 5 days. On July 24, the largest boulder at the site was blasted, marking the abandonment of the rescue operation.
2026-07-21
Around July 21, Xi'an was hit by exceptionally heavy rain. Large trees were uprooted and smashed into utility poles, collapsing walls crushed private cars, and rooftop metal sheds were blown away. The whole city was nearly paralyzed, and netizens questioned whether豆腐渣 projects could withstand wind and rain.
2026-07-17
On July 17, 2026, due to sustained heavy rainfall, the water level of the main stream of the Mudan River, a tributary of the Songhua River in Heilongjiang Province, rose far above the warning line. The surging river water overflowed and flooded multiple towns, villages, and farmland along its banks.
Location: Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang ·
Importance III ·
Verification: Reported ·
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2026-07-14
On July 14, 2026, Dunhua in Jilin Province was hit by severe flooding. The Mudan River surged and overflowed its embankments, causing serious urban waterlogging in the city and flooding surrounding villages. Local disaster victims took to social platforms to call for emergency rescue.
2026-07-11
From the afternoon of July 11 to the afternoon of July 12, within 24 hours, the National Meteorological Center issued a red alert for rainstorms. Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Anhui, as well as Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Jilin and other areas will face heavy rain, and precautions must be taken against flash floods, landslides, mudslides and urban waterlogging.
2026-07-06
China's Ministry of Emergency Management, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and other departments have urgently allocated 160 million yuan in central natural disaster funds to assist affected provinces. The host argues that this amount is too low, with each province receiving an average of only 20 million yuan, which is far from sufficient to cope with the disaster, and criticizes the severe corruption among CCP officials.
2026-07
Professor Miles Yu points out that when major natural disasters occur, the Chinese Communist Party prioritizes demonstrating its governing capability and telling China's story rather than rescuing the people, and will even block negative information.
2026-07
A female blogger from Shandong filmed street scenes at the Gyirong border port, with footage showing rows of shops and crowds of people; a month later the area was destroyed by a mudslide.
2026-06-20
More than a dozen provinces, regions, and municipalities in China have been struck by major natural disasters such as torrential rains, floods, and mudslides. At the same time, multiple man-made disasters have erupted concurrently, including a sudden major fire at the Zhengzhou Automotive Business Plaza in Henan, four fatalities from a construction slip in Wuzhai County, Shanxi, and a residential building fire in Luxi County, Hunan.
2025-07-11
Chengdu University of Technology published an article pointing out that upstream of the river where the Jilong port is located there are 55 unstable glacial lakes, an area prone to disasters.
2025-01
After the 2025 Tibet Dingri earthquake, the total number of personnel from the Tibet Military Command and the Armed Police Force deployed to disaster relief exceeded 5000. On the day of the disaster, more than 1600 armed police and military entered the disaster area, along with 380 militia.