Following a magnitude-6.8 earthquake striking Dingri County in Xigaze, a city in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, Fan Xuanmei, director of the State Key Laboratory of Geohazard Prevention and Geoenvironment Protection at Chengdu University of Technology, and her team assessed the situation. They predict a low chance of large-scale landslides. "While there is no sign of immediate damage to the glacier lakes, the rising temperature and melting snow may raise the risk in the future," she said.