China says 53 lifeless after 7.1-magnitude earthquake strikes Tibet
HONG KONG — A 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck close to one among Tibet’s holiest cities Tuesday, killing a minimum of 53 individuals, Chinese language state media reported.
The earthquake, which was recorded simply after 9 a.m. (8 p.m. ET Monday), was centered at a depth of practically 6 miles, in response to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The tremor, which Chinese language authorities recorded as magnitude 6.8, hit Dingri County in Shigatse, a mountainous area in western China that borders Nepal. Shigatse, which is about 240 miles from the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, is the seat of the Panchen Lama, the second most necessary non secular determine in Tibetan Buddhism after the Dalai Lama.
A minimum of 53 individuals have been killed, in response to Xinhua, China’s state-run information company, with 62 others injured. Many homes close to the epicenter collapsed and a few individuals have been trapped.
About 6,900 individuals reside in additional than two dozen villages inside about 12 miles of the epicenter, Chinese language state broadcaster CCTV reported.
Chinese language authorities have dispatched practically 1,500 hearth and rescue personnel to the world, the broadcaster added. The complete extent of the catastrophe continues to be being assessed.
Tremors have been additionally felt within the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu, 250 miles away, the place residents have been woke up by the tremors.
No injury was instantly reported there.
Earthquakes are widespread within the Himalayan area, which spans a fault line between the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates. Up to now century, there have been 10 earthquakes at magnitude 6 or above inside a 150-mile radius of Tuesday’s epicenter, in response to USGS.
In 2008, virtually 70,000 individuals have been killed in a large quake within the southwestern Chinese language province of Sichuan.
A 7.8-magnitude earthquake in 2015 killed practically 9,000 individuals in Nepal and broken virtually one million buildings, making it one of many deadliest earthquakes within the nation’s historical past.
