Rescue workers in China ’s mountainous Tibet region are racing to reach survivors trapped under the rubble as night temperatures drop far below freezing point following a powerful earthquake.

China has almost doubled its tally of injured in Tibet's deadly earthquake as rescuers widened a search on Friday for survivors in a remote county near the foothills of the Himalayas, despite dwindling hopes for survival.

Old earthquake footage has resurfaced online in the aftermath of a devastating tremor on January 7 that killed at least 126 people in China's remote Tibet region. One video of a large crack that opened up on a road was shared across social media in several languages,

Tibetans living in India and Nepal prayed for the victims of the earthquake which killed at least 126 people in Tibet.