Geologically, the Tibetan Plateau ranks among the most seismically active areas worldwide, serving as a convergence zone for the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates ...

When The Global Times announced that Beijing was going to build a cascade of nine large HPPs on the Yarlung Tsangpo, human ...

A powerful earthquake struck Tibet near Mount Everest on Tuesday ... occurred at 6:35 am in Tingri County, around 80 km north of the mountain. The tremors were felt across Nepal, Bhutan, and ...

Two earthquakes of magnitude 4.9 and 5.0 hit Tibet’s Tingri county on Monday, according to China Earthquake Networks Center. The county was struck by a magnitude 6.8 quake last week that killed ...

A magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit Tibet on Tuesday, causing severe damage in Tingri County. At least 126 people died, over 180 were injured, and thousands of homes were damaged. Strong aftershocks ...

The magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck about 75 kilometers (50 miles) from Mount Everest and the Nepalese border in Tingri, Tibet's most populous county. It struck just after 9 a.m. local time (0100 ...

The Jan. 7 earthquake, the fifth-strongest in China since the destructive 2008 Sichuan temblor, left at least 126 people dead and injured 338 in Tibet. More than 47,000 people in Tingri had to be ...

The epicentre was located in Tingri, a rural county near the boundary where the Indian tectonic plate collides with the Eurasian plate, creating long fault-lines across the Tibetan plateau.

As rescue workers waded through rubble in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake in China's remote Tibet region in January 2025, a picture of Tibetan Buddhist monks clearing debris circulated in posts ...

The epicenter of Tuesday’s magnitude 6.8 quake, one of the region’s most powerful tremors in recent years, was located in Tingri in China’s Tibet, about 50 miles north of Mount Everest ...

The epicentre of Tuesday’s magnitude 6.8 quake, one of the region’s most powerful tremors in recent years, was located in Tingri in China’s Tibet, about 80km north of Mount Everest ...

The Tingri tremor was caused by a rupture in what ... Mainling is located in the lower reaches of Tibet’s Yarlung Zangbo river where China is planning to build the world’s largest hydropower ...