The death toll from Monday’s earthquake in China, the deadliest in nearly a decade, rose to 148 on Friday, state media reported, as authorities turned their attention to securing new housing for the thousands displaced.

The earthquake, which struck a few minutes before midnight on Monday (local time) in an area about 1,300 kilometers southwest of Beijing, killed at least 117 people in Gansu province and 31 in neighboring Qinghai province, according to the official Chinese news agency. News New China.

In the two provinces, more than 139,000 people are living in tents and other temporary accommodation amid the polar cold, according to the state television network CCTV, which emphasized that the efforts of the authorities in Gansu are now focused “on moving the earthquake victims to new housing” and in offering care to the injured.

However, rescue teams were continuing to search for trapped victims in Qinghai yesterday Friday morning, CCTV reported.

In this province, people were buried alive in the Zhongchuan community.

Nearly 1,000 people were injured in both provinces in the 5.9-magnitude quake, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS). After the main earthquake, hundreds of aftershocks were recorded.

It is the deadliest earthquake in the Asian country since the one in Yunnan province (southwest) in 2014, when authorities counted more than 600 dead.