7.1-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes China’s Tibet Region Near Nepal Border

Using their hands and shovels in frigid conditions, rescue workers dug through the rubble in the search for survivors after a deadly magnitude 7.1 earthquake toppled houses and jolted people awake in a remote part of Tibet on Tuesday near the northern foothills of Mount Everest.

At least 126 people have died and 188 were injured in the quake, which struck shortly after 9 a.m. at a depth of 6.2 miles in Dingri County, near one of Tibet’s most historic cities, in western China, state media reported. The quake was the country’s deadliest since December 2023, when 151 people were killed in a magnitude 6.2 temblor in the northwestern provinces of Gansu and Qinghai.

China’s state broadcaster reported that more than 1,000 houses had experienced some form of damage in Dingri County, where the average altitude is around 15,000 feet, along the Himalayan border with Nepal.