Footage shows damaged buildings in Shigatse, Tibet, following an earthquake that struck the region this morning. The magnitude 6.8 quake struck at 9:05 am local time (01:05 GMT) at a depth of 10km ...

AT LEAST 126 people have died after a devastating earthquake ripped through one of Tibet’s holiest cities. The 7.1 magnitude quake destroyed “many buildings” in Shigatse injuring 130 and ...

Tibet's earthquake of magnitude 6.8 that killed 126 and damaged four water reservoirs this week highlights the risks from a hydropower building spree by Asian giants China and India in one of the ...

India has voiced concern about Beijing’s plan to build a dam in Tibet that is three times larger than China’s Three Gorges, currently the world’s largest hydropower facility.

A devastating earthquake in the remote Tibet ­region killed at least 95 ... areas “experienced very strong tremors, and many buildings near the epicentre have collapsed”.

Video posted by CCTV showed building debris littering streets and ... which was 240 miles from Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, and about 14 miles from the region's second-largest city of Shigatse ...

Tremors also shook buildings in neighbouring Nepal, Bhutan and India. The impact was felt across the Shigatse region of Tibet ...

Tibet and Nepal lie on a major geological fault ... “Education about earthquakes and earthquake-resilient buildings combined with funding for retrofits and resilient structures can help protect ...

The Jan. 7 quake in Tibet, the fifth-deadliest in China since the 2008 Sichuan temblor, destroyed more than 3,600 houses and ...