7.0 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Tibet Weeks After Deadly Floods
New Delhi: A powerful earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale struck Tibet at around 8.03 p.m. on Thursday, raising fresh concerns in a region still recovering from devastating flash floods last month. According to India’s National Centre for Seismology (NCS), the earthquake occurred at a depth of 173 kilometres below the Earth’s surface. The epicentre was approximately 400 kilometres from…
A magnitude 7 earthquake struck southwestern China's Tibet region on Thursday at around 10:33 p.m. local time, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC). The epicentre was located in a high-altitude county in Nagqu, northern Tibet, at a depth of 10 km, with the average elevation within a 5 km radius of the epicentre being approximately 4,864 meters.
The quake, the strongest to hit China since January 2024, was felt locally, though it is not yet known if there have been any casualties or significant damage. The epicentre was situated around 400 km from Lhasa, the Tibetan capital. In comparison, a magnitude 7.1 tremor struck Yushu in neighbouring Qinghai province in 2010, resulting in at least 2,698 deaths and nearly 300 people missing.
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