At least 53 people have been reportedly killed, while 62 others injured by a strong magnitude 7.1 earthquake that rocks Tibet in southwest of China, which borders India and Nepal.
The quake hit at 9:05am (0105 GMT), with its epicentre located in Tingri, a rural Chinese county known as the northern gateway to the Everest region, at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), according to the China Earthquake Networks Centre.
Reuters reports that the Tuesday incident shook buildings in neighbouring Nepal, Bhutan and India and many others were also trapped.
The U.S. Geological Service put the quake’s magnitude at 7.1.
The magnitude 7.1 quake struck in a mountainous area in the Tibet region, near the border with Nepal, at a depth of about six miles, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said.
Tuesday’s epicentre was around 80 km (50 miles) north of Everest, the world’s highest mountain and a popular destination for climbers and trekkers.
The average altitude in the area around the epicentre is about 13,800 feet, state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) said.
The CCTV online report said there were a handful of communities within three miles) of the epicentre, which was 240 miles from Lhasa, the capital of Tibet.
In the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu, the earthquake sent residents running out of their homes after they were woken up by the tremor.
However, no information was immediately available from the remote, mountainous areas closer to the epicentre across the border.
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