epicenter was Shigatse, the second-largest city in Tibet, with a population of 640, 000.... Shigatse

Videos posted by China's Ministry of Emergency Management showed two people carried out on stretchers by workers picking their way across debris from collapsed homes. The Ministry said about 1, 500 fire and rescue workers were involved in the search for people.... The area is seismically active and is where the India and Eurasia plates meet, causing uplifts in the Himalayan mountains strong enough to change the heights of some of the world’s tallest peaks. Footage posted by China's state broadc

Join our Whatsapp channel A magnitude 6.8 earthquake rocked the northern foothills of the Himalayas near one of Tibet’s holiest cities on Tuesday, Chinese authorities said, killing at least 95 people and shaking buildings in neighbouring Nepal, Bhutan and India. ADVERTISEMENT The quake hit at 9: 05am( 8: 35am PST), with its epicentre located in Tingri, a rural county known as the northern gateway to the Everest region, at a depth of 10 kilometres, according to the China Earthquake Networks Centr