In Tibet (China), a magnitude 6.8 earthquake hit the canton of Tingri on the night of 6 to 7 January. It has already claimed more than hundred lives and injured dozens more. Emergency services are on site and aftershocks are still occurring.
Not far from the Chinese side of Mount Everest, in the Himalayan region of Tibet, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake (according to China’s national earthquake agency (CENC)) struck on the night of Monday 6 to Tuesday 7 January. The township of Tingri (or Dingri) and its inhabitants were shaken and ‘many buildings collapsed near the epicentre’, quotes Le Monde from a source on Chinese state television CCTV. Located in south-west China, the earthquake was felt as far away as neighbouring Nepal.
In this region, more than 70 earthquakes of a magnitude greater than 4 are recorded every year, causing dozens of deaths each time. For the first one