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

The earthquake also rocked Mount Everest - the world's tallest peak ... water being cut off for the tens of thousands of residents. Shigatse is widely regarded as one of the holiest cities in ...

A deadly earthquake struck near the city of Shigatse in Tibet region and was ... high-altitude region about 50 miles northeast of Mount Everest, which straddles the China-Nepal border.

A powerful magnitude 7.1 earthquake centered about 50 miles from Mount Everest left at least 95 dead ... citing the vice mayor of Shigatse. Rescue workers climbed mounds of broken bricks, some ...

About 50 aftershocks were recorded in the three hours after the earthquake, and the Mount Everest scenic area on the Chinese side ... from the region’s second-largest city of Shigatse, known as Xigaze ...

More than 120 people have been killed after a powerful earthquake struck a remote region of Tibet on Tuesday morning, with tremors felt across the Himalayas in neighboring Nepal, Bhutan and parts of ...

The epicenter of the magnitude 6.8 quake that hit around 9:05 a.m. Tuesday morning was in Tingri county, in Shigatse city, according to the official Xinhua News Agency. The earthquake knocked some ...

The epicentre of the quake was the Shigatse high-altitude county of Dingri, located on the Chinese side of Mount Everest and home to about 62,000 people. Tuesday’s quake was the most powerful ...