The epicenter of Tuesday’s magnitude 6.8 quake, one of the region’s most powerful tremors in recent years, was located in Tingri in China’s Tibet, about 50 miles north of Mount Everest ...

As rescue workers waded through rubble in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake in China's remote Tibet region in January 2025, a picture of Tibetan Buddhist monks clearing debris circulated in posts ...

The epicentre was located in Tingri, a rural county near the boundary where the Indian tectonic plate collides with the Eurasian plate, creating long fault-lines across the Tibetan plateau.

The Jan. 7 earthquake, the fifth-strongest in China since the destructive 2008 Sichuan temblor, left at least 126 people dead and injured 338 in Tibet. More than 47,000 people in Tingri had to be ...

What we know about the quake The magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck about 75 kilometers (50 miles) from Mount Everest and the Nepalese border in Tingri, Tibet's most populous county. It struck just ...

The epicentre of Tuesday's magnitude 6.8 quake, one of the region's most powerful tremors in recent years, was located in Tingri in China's Tibet, about 80 km (50 miles) north of Mount Everest ...

Tibet Autonomous Region (via REUTERS) About 1,000 of the earthquake-proof and heated houses are being sent to Tingri and can be erected in about 10 minutes, according to reports. Tents ...

Two earthquakes of magnitude 4.9 and 5.0 hit Tibet’s Tingri county on Monday, according to China Earthquake Networks Center. The county was struck by a magnitude 6.8 quake last week that killed ...

The quake hit at 9.05am (01.05 GMT), with its epicentre located in Tingri, a rural Chinese county ... was felt across the Shigatse region of Tibet, home to 800,000 people. The region is ...

The Tingri tremor was caused by a rupture in what ... Mainling is located in the lower reaches of Tibet’s Yarlung Zangbo river where China is planning to build the world’s largest hydropower ...

Urgency Mounts in Search for Survivors of Powerful Tibet Earthquake By Joe Cash BEIJING (Reuters) -More than 400 people trapped by rubble in earthquake-stricken Tibet have been rescued, Chinese ...