In the town of Lhatse, videos geolocated by AFP showed debris scattered in front of streetside eateries. Rescue teams look through rubble in Shigatse City [Screengrab obtained from a handout video ...

The earthquake reportedly struck Tibet's holy city of Shigatse on the morning of Tuesday, Jan. 7 Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024.

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck near one of Tibet's holiest cities on Tuesday morning, the China Earthquake Networks Center said, damaging buildings around Shigatse and sending people running to ...

Chinese authorities say nearly 100 people have been killed after a 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck the holy Tibetan city of Shigatse, with the death toll expected to rise. Survivors: The world’s ...

The earthquake occurred in Dingri County, Shigatse City, Tibet, just after 9 a.m. local time with a focal depth of 10 kilometers, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center. More than 3,600 ...

Xinhua reported that at least nine people were killed in three townships – Changsuo, Quluo and Cuoguo – in Shigatse’s surrounding Tingri county, where many buildings had collapsed ...

A powerful earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale jolted Shigatse, Tibet’s second-largest city, early on Tuesday morning, sparking concern across the region. The tremor struck at ...

A huge magnitude 7.1 earthquake has hit the holy city of Shigatse, or Xigazê, in the autonomous region of Tibet in China. A deadly magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit one of the holiest cities in Tibet ...

State broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) put the epicentre in Tingri county, about 240 miles from Tibet's capital Lhasa and about 14 miles from its second-largest city of Shigatse - also ...

The impact was felt across the Shigatse region of Tibet ... be seen in a video on social media showing the aftermath in the town of Lhatse, with debris spilling out onto the road.