Emergency services personnel coordinate rescue efforts following an earthquake in Nagqu, in China's Tibet Autonomous Region, in this image from video released Friday. | NAGQU POLICE DEPARTMENT / VIA REUTERS

BEIJING – China ordered an “all-out” rescue effort in Tibet on Friday after an earthquake killed at least 16 people, injured dozens and flattened hundreds of homes, state media reported.

Footage showed rescue workers with torches clambering in the dark through some of the more than 300 houses that Xinhua said collapsed in the 7.0 magnitude quake on Thursday evening.

Diners ran out of restaurants and items fell off wobbling supermarket shelves as the tremor struck, according to clips on state broadcaster CCTV, which said 65 people were injured.

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