Cuoguo Township, where the epicenter of the earthquake in Dingri County, Tibet is located in a plateau wide valley and basin at the northern foot of the Himalayas. It is about 4,200 meters above sea level. The reporter saw in the epicenter area that local houses had been damaged to varying degrees. Wang Weimin, associate researcher at the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, explained that the earthquake occurred in the south-south region of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau towards a rift. It was a positive fault type, and the epicenter was structurally the southern positive fault system of the Shenza-Dingjing rift. The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has a series of Cenozoic north-south rift valleys from west to east. Currently, scholars still have different understandings about the causes of these rift valleys, such as gravitational collapse, lateral extrusion, and plate tearing. Wang Weimin analyzed that the earthquake had a great impact on surrounding fractures, and further research and monitoring are still needed.

Cuoguo Township, where the epicenter of the earthquake in Dingri County, Tibet is located in a plateau wide valley and basin at the northern foot of the Himalayas. It is about 4,200 meters above sea level. The reporter saw in the epicenter area that local houses had been damaged to varying degrees. Wang Weimin, associate researcher at the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, explained that the earthquake occurred in the south-south region of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau towards a rift. It was a positive fault type, and the epicenter was structurally the southern positive fault system of the Shenza-Dingjing rift. The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has a series of Cenozoic north-south rift valleys from west to east. Currently, scholars still have different understandings about the causes of these rift valleys, such as gravitational collapse, lateral extrusion, and plate tearing. Wang Weimin analyzed that the earthquake had a great impact on surrounding fractures, and further research and monitoring are still needed.