The hydropower dam, in quake-prone Tibet, is set to be the world’s biggest. But China has said little about the project, ...

A strong earthquake shook a mountainous region in western China near Nepal on Tuesday morning, killing at least 32 people.

According to the China Earthquake Networks Center, the earthquake reached a magnitude of 6.8, but the U.S. Geological Service reports an even higher number of 7.1. Its effects were felt in areas ...

The epicentre was around 80 km north of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain and a popular destination for climbers ...

Chinese authorities in Tibet have detected problems, including cracks, at five out of 14 hydropower dams that they have ...

An earthquake of magnitude 5.7 was registered in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous ... Hezbollah, in its first statement after the ceasefire took effect on Wednesday in the fighting with Israel ...

At least 95 people died and 130 are injured in a powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake that struck the mountainous region of Tibet in China, with tremors felt across Nepal, Bhutan and India. The ...

After a devastating earthquake in China's remote Tibet region killed at least 126 people and reduced houses and buildings to rubble, footage of motorists stopping on a shaking bridge was shared in ...

Earthquakes have both primary effects (such as the destruction of buildings) and secondary effects (such as fires, water contamination, or spread of diseases) . There are ways of reducing the ...

BEIJING -- A 4.8-magnitude earthquake jolted Yongning county in Yinchuan, capital of Northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region, on Thursday at 10:01 am (Beijing Time), according to the China ...