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

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 ...

Many homes in Shigatse city were reduced to rubble ... and were forecast to drop as low as minus 16 C (3 F) overnight. The ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BEIJING (Reuters) -A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck Tibet's second-largest city on Tuesday morning, the China Earthquake Networks Centre said, shaking the area surrounding Shigatse city at 9:05 a ...

A search and rescue dog from Chongqing has captured online attention thanks to its rescue efforts across several villages in ...

The disaster relief work in quake-hit Dingri county in Southwest China's Xizang autonomous region, including makeshift houses ...

A deadly earthquake struck near the city of Shigatse in Tibet region and was ... which straddles the China-Nepal border. NBC News' Janis Mackey Frayer reports for Early Today.