A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck the foothills of the Himalayas near one of Tibet's holiest cities on Tuesday, killing at least 95 people and collapsing hundreds of houses, Chinese authorities said.
More than 120 people have been killed after a powerful earthquake struck a remote region of Tibet on Tuesday morning, with tremors felt across the Himalayas in neighboring Nepal, Bhutan and parts of ...
the capital of Tibet, and about 14 miles from the region's second-largest city of Shigatse, known as Xigaze in Chinese. About 140 miles away in Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, the earthquake woke up ...
A strong earthquake shook a mountainous region in western China near Nepal on Tuesday morning, killing at least 32 people.
The epicentre was around 80 km north of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain and a popular destination for climbers ...
Tibet is one of the most inaccessible and ... a senior seismologist at Nepal’s National Earthquake Monitoring and Research Center. Most residents from Nepal’s high mountain regions such ...
The death toll stood at 126 as of Tuesday evening. The quake struck the city of Xigaze, the traditional seat of the Panchen Lama, the second-highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism.
The quake also jolted Thimphu, the capital of Bhutan, and the northern Indian state of Bihar which borders Nepal. Tibet was struck with a magnitude 6.8 earthquake on Tuesday, one of the most ...
At least 188 people were injured in Tibet on the Chinese side of ... People in northeastern Nepal strongly felt the earthquake, but there were no initial reports of injuries or damage, according ...
A series of six earthquakes, including a major one measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale, struck the Tibetan region near the Nepal border on Tuesday morning, leaving a trail of destruction. The quakes, ...
"A 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit Tibet's Shigatse city, with strong tremors also felt over in Nepal, even the ground has cracked open," read the simplified-Chinese caption of a compilation posted ...
More than 120 people have been killed after a powerful earthquake struck a remote region of Tibet on Tuesday morning, with tremors felt across the Himalayas in neighboring Nepal, Bhutan and parts ...