The earthquake struck at 9.05 a.m. (0105 GMT), and its epicenter was in Tingri, a remote county that serves as the northern gateway to the Everest region.
On Tuesday, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck the northern Himalayan foothills near the city of Xigaze in Tibet. At least 95 people lost their lives, and 130 others were injured in the earthquake, which also caused tremors in neighboring countries like Nepal, Bhutan, and India.
According to regional disaster assistance headquarters, the earthquake struck Dingri County in Xigaze, Tibet Autonomous Region, China, at 9:05 a.m. Tuesday (Beijing time). According to the China Earthquake Networks Centre, the earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 kilometers (6.2 miles).
CCTV stated that at least 95 people were murdered on the Tibetan side.
Tremors were felt in Delhi-NCR and several other North Indian cities, including parts of Bihar as well.
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A 7.1 magnitude earthquake in Nepal caused vibrations over Delhi-NCR and other portions of North India.
According to the US Geological Survey (USGS), the earthquake struck around 6.35 a.m., 93 kilometers northeast of Lobuche, near the Nepal-Tibet border.
The epicentre was located where the India and Eurasia plates collided, causing uplifts in the Himalayan highlands strong enough to alter the heights of some of the world’s tallest mountains.
According to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC), the 6.8 magnitude quake rocked Dingri County near the Nepalese border at 9:05 a.m. (0105 GMT).
China said that at least 95 people were killed in a powerful earthquake that slammed the Tibet region near the Nepal border.
According to the Press, CCTV reported that there were a few communities within 5 kilometers (3 miles) of the epicenter, which was 380 kilometers (240 miles) from Tibet’s capital, Lhasa.
According to the USGS report, at least half a dozen tremors with magnitudes ranging from 4 to 5 were reported over the course of an hour around 7 a.m.
Today’s earthquake was the most strong recorded within a 200-kilometer radius in the previous five years.
A 7.8-magnitude earthquake devastated Nepal in 2015, killing about 9,000 people and injuring over 22,000 more, demolishing more than half a million homes.
Nepal sits atop a crucial geological faultline where the Indian Plate meets the Eurasian Plate.
