We'll be stopping this live page temporarily, so here's a round-up of the past few hours:

• At least 118 people have been killed in the 6.2 magnitude strike on Monday night
• Rescuers are racing against the clock to find earthquake survivors - freezing conditions mean they have a shorter amount of time to work in
• The head of the rescue team in Gansu told the BBC the weather was "too cold to bear", and rescue teams joining the effort from other parts of the country would find it "hard to endure"
• The earthquake in Gansu is the deadliest China has seen in over a decade, following an earthquake in 2010 which killed almost 3,000 people
• Survivors said the tremours had felt like "being tossed [by] surging waves"

For now, you can read more about the massive earthquake in our story here.

It's nearly 16:00 in China and we are starting to see more images of the impact of the earthquake. Here are some of the latest pictures:

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Here's a look at the regions that were affected by the earthquake - and the epicentre of where it hit.

Laura Bicker
China correspondent

The BBC has been speaking to Wang Yi, the Chief commander of the BlueSky Search & Rescue Team, Gansu about the status of rescue operations.

Mr Wang said that number of casualties of the quake would "definitely rise though not by much". He also said that the sub zero temperatures in Gansu were "too cold to bear" which would have an impact on how many survivors could be rescued.

"Mainly it’s the temperature, the weather. Secondly it’s the altitude. The place is colder than Turkey (which also recently experienced a devastating earthquake). It’s-15C. For teams from the south (which is warmer) this is hard to endure."

He added that "not too many" survivors had been found since his team had arrived there on Tuesday morning.

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"The team on the ground is checking (house to house for survivors). I think around the town there shouldn’t be much problem, because we have a lot of search and rescue resources there," he said.

"The first batch of minor injuries have all come out. Now we need to dig deeper. But there are no big buildings in the area. So it will rise, but it won’t be much. Because if it’s a whole collapsed building, then this will lead to high casualties. But these are flat civilian’s houses. They are old houses, some made of clay and mud. There are no high buildings.

The mountaineous region in northern China is one of the most ethnically diverse in the country.

And the epicentre of where the quake hit - the Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture -is a centre for the Muslim Hui people, a large Chinese ethnic group.

It also includes other Muslim Chinese groups, including the Bonan, Dongxiang and Salar people.

Compared to the rest of China the region is also very poor.

Surveillance footage from a Linxia City restaurant shows the moment of the earthquake. In the video, customers and staff appear to notice the initial tremor, pausing for a moment before scrambling for the exit all at once.

The establishment is located around 52km (32miles) from the epicenter of the quake.

It's just past 14:30 in China where rescuers are racing against time to find survivors of an earthquake that has killed at least 118 people in a rural province in the north-west of the country. Here is what we have been reporting so far:

• Rescuers are braving sub zero temperatures of -13C as they comb through rubble. Local officials have said that the freezing cold means the 'golden window' to find quake survivors is shorter than usual
• More than 5,000 houses have been damaged, as have roads as well as power and water supplies, all of which are hampering rescue efforts
• China's president Xi Jinping called for all out rescue efforts and the government dispatched teams of rescue workers to assist local emergency crews
• Some 200m yuan (£22m; $28m) in natural disaster relief funds has been allocated to Gansu- where 105 people have died - and Qinghai provinces
• Many survivors have been telling local media that the quake - which measured 6.2 on the richter scale - was the strongest they have experienced. Experts said that the relatively large magnitude of the quake, as well as its relatively shallow depth, increased the severity of casualties

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In terms of casualties, the Gansu earthquake is the deadliest China has seen since the devastating 2010 earthquake in Yushu, Qinghai province, which claimed almost 2,700 lives.

At 6.2, it is also the second-largest in magnitude. The Yushu quake had a magnitude of 7.1, according to Chinese authorities.

At least 118 have died in Gansu and Qinghai so far.

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Deputy Director of the Gansu Blue Sky Rescue Team Centre told local media that one of the reasons for the massive extent of damage to infrastructure was because many houses in the area were constructed with clay and were very old.

He added that as many as 70 to 80% of the houses in the affected areas are likely to be uninhabitable.

Survivors of the quake have recounted their experiences, with one man saying the tremors were akin to "being tossed [by] surging waves".

“I live on the 16th floor and felt the tremors so strongly. I woke my family up and we rushed down all 16 floors in one breath,” the man, whose surname is Qin, told state media.

Stepping into temperatures of -12C (10F), Qin saw many neighbours who had fled from surrounding buildings - some were wearing down jackets, some wrapped in blankets, and others even bare-chested.

On Douyin, a user calling herself Gansu Aunt Wang posted a video of a woman carrying her child while sitting in the yard of her house. "My legs are still shaking," the woman says. "The whole house was shaking. I won't dare to sleep tonight."

Local media outlet The Paper also quoted a person calling herself Xiao Cheng as saying: "I hadn’t fallen asleep at that point, and I started running right away. I almost didn’t make it."

She added: "We don’t know [if anyone is trapped] yet. It happened at such a late hour, I don’t know."

Some 200m yuan (£22m; $28m) in natural disaster relief funds has been allocated to Gansu and Qinghai provinces.

State media reported that the funds were allocated by China's finance ministry and emergency management ministry.

Authorities have already quickly set up temporary camps and evacuation sites for people who have had to flee their homes. Nearly 5,000 buildings and structures have been damaged Gansu officials said.

But it is bitingly cold outside- temperatures are below negative, around -13C.

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The relatively large magnitude of the Gansu quake, as well as its relatively shallow depth, increased the severity of casualties, an earthquake expert told Chinese media.

Chen Huizhong noted that the quake also took place in a densely populated area, and that many were sleeping when the tremors took hold in the middle of the night.

In addition, the earthquake resistance of buildings in the area is weak, and not as strong as those in the eastern region. This is down to the backward nature of the local economy.

The earthquake flattened some homes in north-west China's Gansu. Daylight footage shared by CCTV shows one building reduced to rubble - with a children's textbook found among the debris.

In neighbouring Qinghai, excavators were brought in to clear a mudslide blocking a road. Meanwhile emergency workers armed with spades continued the search for survivors.

The death toll from the Gansu quake has now risen to 118, with more fatalities expected as rescuers continue to comb through the rubble.

Authorities said two more people had died in Qinghai, bringing fatalities there to 13. Some 105 people have also died in Gansu, with a total of 266 injured across both provinces.

Twenty people remain missing.

Gansu authorities have put out a call , externalon social media for more emergency workers.

"More than 300 people are urgently needed for building collapse search and rescue," the statement reads.

They said the country had initiated a Level 2 earthquake response.

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State outlet China News network is reporting lines from rescue teams in Jishishan County.

They're quoting Shi Wanjin, a captain of the Gansu Houtian Emergency Rescue Corps,as saying that some people have already been rescued but the window is closing in the bitterly cold temperatures.

"The golden rescue time of this earthquake will be shortened" he said, adding that it was due to the scale of the quake and the low temperatures. Most of the roads across the country are covered in ice and snow.

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Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen has expressed condolences to China on the Gansu earthquake.

The island's presidential office added that Taiwan is willing to provide assistance to China.

Taiwan often experiences earthquakes and other natural disasters. Earlier this year, it deployed search and rescue teams to Turkey after a deadly quake.

It's Tuesday morning now in Jishishan, and as we reported earlier, thousands of rescue workers are working in sub-zero temperatures.

Firefighters, soldiers and police are searching for survivors as the temperature hits -13C (8.6F), even as authorities warned that more aftershocks may occur.

Temperatures have plunged to well below freezing across northern China, as a cold snap gripped many parts of the country.

Shanxi, Hebei and Liaoning provinces have all been gripped by record low temperatures, state media reported.

Jishishan county officials say they've been worst affected by the midnight quake.

Photos from Chinese outlets show hundreds of rescuers have been deployed to the county - the pictures below show rescue and search operations in Kangdiao village.

Image source, CHINA DAILY/REUTERS

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