The earthquake reportedly struck Tibet's holy city of Shigatse on the morning of Tuesday, Jan. 7 Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024.

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 ...

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 ...

Foreign climbers who want to try reaching the top of the 29,032-foot-tall peak will face higher permit fees in Nepal starting ...

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 ...

More than 14,000 rescue workers have arrived in Tibet to continue the search for survivors after a strong earthquake killed at least 126 people in a remote part of western China.

The quake’s epicenter was located near Shigatse, one of Tibet’s holiest ... earthquake was located around 50 miles northeast of Mount Everest—the tallest mountain peak in the world.

At least 130 people have been injured in the earthquake-hit area in Tibet on the Chinese side of the border, state broadcaster CCTV reported, citing the vice mayor of Shigatse city. More than ...

The epicentre of the earthquake was in Tingri county in Shigatse city ... It is a tourism hub for those visiting Mount Everest. According to the National Centre for Seismology (NCS), the ...

The China Earthquake Networks Centre located the epicentre at Tingri county, known as the northern gateway to the Everest ...

In Nepal, an official told Reuters the quake destroyed a school building in a village near Mount Everest ... 3,609 homes had been destroyed in the Shigatse region, home to 800,000 people, state ...