The hydropower dam, in quake-prone Tibet, is set to be the world’s biggest. But China has said little about the project, ...

The epicentre was around 80 km north of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain and a popular destination for climbers ...

Thousands of aftershocks following the deadly Tibet earthquake early this month continue to cause havoc and instability in the most affected areas amid ongoing humanitarian efforts. More than 3,600 ...

Videos aired by China’s state broadcaster CCTV showed houses destroyed with the official Xinhua News Agency saying more than 1,000 houses were damaged. The epicentre of the quake was Shigatse ...

A magnitude 6.9 earthquake has hit Tibet’s Shigatse city, China’s state broadcaster CCTV reported. The earthquake struck at 9:05am local time (01:05 GMT) at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), according to ...

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 ...

As rescue workers waded through rubble in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake in China's remote Tibet region in January 2025 ...

China’s meteorological administration has ... an 18-year-old college student traveling with a tour group, was about to depart Shigatse and head southwest to see Mount Everest when the ground ...

The tremor, which Chinese authorities recorded as magnitude 6.8, hit Dingri County in Shigatse, a mountainous region in western China that borders Nepal. Shigatse, which is about 240 miles from ...

A 6.9 magnitude earthquake on Tuesday hit Tibet's Shigatse city, China's state broadcaster CCTV reported.The e ...

According to China's state broadcaster CCTV, there have been 29 earthquakes with magnitudes of 3 or higher within 200 km of the Shigatse quake in the past five years, all of which were smaller ...