China's overuse of water energy is triggering earthquakes in Tibet. The massive dam digging is triggering earthquakes and ...

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

Videos posted by China’s ministry of emergency management ... The impact of the powerful earthquake was felt across the Shigatse region of Tibet, one of the holiest sites in Buddhism which ...

China recorded the magnitude as 6.8. The epicenter ... and about 14 miles from the region's second-largest city of Shigatse, known as Xigaze in Chinese. About 140 miles away in Nepal's capital ...

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 ...

Around 9 a.m. local time, the earthquake struck Tibet's holy city of Shigatse, according to the BBC. Multiple aftershocks affected the "high-altitude region of western China and across the border ...

Shigatse city is renowned for its Tashilhunpo Monastery, a major tourist attraction today. This area, as indeed much of southwestern China, is sadly earthquake prone. Its magnificent scenery is ...

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 ...

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 ...

An initial survey showed 3,609 homes had been destroyed in the Shigatse region of Tibet ... 126 people were known to have been killed and 188 injured on the Tibetan side, China's state broadcaster ...

Home to some 60,000 people, Tingri is Tibet’s most populous county on China’s border with Nepal and is administered from Shigatse, the traditional seat of the Panchen Lama, one of the most ...