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The Hindu
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A devastating earthquake in China’s remote Tibet region killed at least 126 people and damaged thousands of buildings on Tuesday (January 7, 2025), with tremors also felt in neighbouring Nepal’s capital Kathmandu and parts of India.
The quake struck rural, high-altitude Tingri county, about 80 km north of Mount Everest near China’s border with Nepal, at around 9:00 a.m. (0630 IST) on Tuesday. Tingri, the epicentre, is home to around 62,000 people, and is much less developed than urban centres like Tibet’s capital Lhasa.
The China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC) measured the quake’s magnitude as 6.8, while the U.S. Geological Survey reported it as 7.1. The area most affected is surrounded by mountainous terrain on the Chinese side of Mount Everest.
At least 126 people have been confirmed dead and 188 others injured as of 7:00 pm, CCTV said. Twenty-eight people in critical condition were transferred to hospital for treatment and 3,609 houses had collapsed, it added.
Southwestern parts of China, Nepal and northern India are often hit by earthquakes caused by the collision of the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates, which are pushing up an ancient sea that is now the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau. The entire plateau is seismically active, as well as its eastern and northern rims, which overlap with the Chinese provinces and regions of Sichuan, Gansu and Qinghai.
Tuesday’s quake was the worst since a 6.2 magnitude earthquake in 2023 that killed at least 149 people in a remote northwestern region of the country.
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