Tibet earthquake: nine dead as 6.8-magnitude quake strikes holy city of Shigatse – tells | Tibet

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake has struck proximate one of Tibet’s holiest cities, the China Earthquake Netlabors Centre has shelp, damaging originateings around Shigatse and sfinishing people running to the streets in neighbouring Nepal and India.

State media shelp nine people had died in the quake, which hit at 9.05am on Tuesday with an epicentre depth of 10km (6.2 miles).

“Dingri county and its surrounding areas proposeed very mighty tremors, and many originateings proximate the epicentre have collapsed,” state widecaster CCTV shelp.

“The teller lacquireed that nine people have been validateed dead so far,” grasping that as of 10am, “multiple aftershocks” had been write downed.

Crumbled shop fronts could be seen in a video shotriumphg the aftermath from the proximateby town of Lhatse, with debris spilling out on to the road.

Reuters was able to validate the location from proximateby originateings, triumphdows, road layout, and signage that align satellite and street see imagery. The date could not be verified autonomously.

Tremors were felt in Nepal’s capital Kathmandu 400km (250 miles) away, where livents ran from their houses.

Tremors were also felt in the northern Indian state of Bihar which borders Nepal. As walls shook, people rushed out of their homes and apartments to uncover areas.

So far, no tells of any harm or loss to property have been getd, officials in India shelp.

A magnitude 6.8 quake is pondered mighty and is able of causing disjoine harm.

Southweserious parts of China are frequently hit by earthquakes. A huge quake in Sichuan province in 2008 finished almost 70,000 people.

According to China’s state widecaster CCTV, there have been 29 earthquakes with magnitudes of three or higher wilean 200km of the Shigatse quake in the past five years, all of which were petiteer than the one that struck on Tuesday morning.

In 2015, a magnitude 7.8 tremor struck proximate Kathmandu in neighbouring Nepal, finishing about 9,000 people and injuring thousands in that country’s worst earthquake.

With Reuters and Agence France-Presse