By Joe Cash BEIJING (Reuters) -Over 400 people trapped by rubble in earthquake-stricken Tibet were rescued, Chinese officials said on Wednesday, with an unknown number still unaccounted for after a ...

The death toll stood at 126 as of Tuesday evening. The quake struck the city of Xigaze, the traditional seat of the Panchen Lama, the second-highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism.

More than 120 people have been confirmed dead and thousands are homeless after a night of sub-zero temperatures and hundreds ...

Some village homes and structures collapsed in the quake, officials said. In 2015, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal triggered a massive avalanche from Pumori, a nearby mountain ...

At least 188 injured as tremors also shook buildings in neighbouring Nepal, Bhutan and India. A strong earthquake has struck near one of Tibet’s holiest cities, killing at least 126 people and leaving ...

the world's highest mountain. Tremors also shook buildings in neighbouring Nepal, Bhutan and India. The impact was felt across the Shigatse region of Tibet, home to 800,000 people. The region is ...

Its epicenter, located in Tingri county high on the Tibetan plateau, was close to the border with Nepal, around 50 miles north of the world’s highest mountain. The tremors were felt as far away ...

A day after a powerful earthquake struck Tibet's Shigatse region, with tremors felt across Bhutan, the National Centre for ...

Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said more than 1,000 homes were damaged in the barren and sparsely populated region.

A strong earthquake hit the foothills of the Himalayas near one of Tibet’s holiest cities yesterday, killing at least 126 people and flattening hundreds of houses, Chinese authorities said.

In Nepal, an official told Reuters that the quake destroyed a school building in a village near Mount Everest, which straddles the Nepali-Tibetan border, but no one was inside at the time.

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck Tibet's second-largest city on Tuesday morning, the China Earthquake Networks Centre said, shaking the area surrounding Shigatse city at 9:05 a.m. (0105 GMT).