A powerful earthquake on Tuesday in the Himalayan region of Tibet, in southwest China, killed at least 95 people and caused the collapse of “ many buildings », an earthquake felt as far away as neighboring Nepal.
The 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck Dingri township, located near the Sino-Nepal border, at 9:05 a.m. (1:05 a.m. UT), according to China’s national earthquake agency (CENC). The US Geological Survey (USGS) reported a magnitude of 7.1.
Videos broadcast by Chinese state television CCTV show white-colored homes at high altitude, with gutted walls and collapsed roofs, with stones littering the ground. Other images from the channel show vehicles buried under bricks or customers of a convenience store fleeing the store when the earthquake causes products on the shelves to fall to the ground.
Firefighters in orange uniforms arrived at the scene of the disaster, amid rubble and near survivors and elderly people wrapped in blankets, according to CCTV videos. “ In total, 95 people died and 130 others injured “, indicated the official New China news agency.
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The tremors were felt as far away as Kathmandu in Nepal400 km away, but also in the state of Bihar in Inde. There, residents fled their homes, panicked by the tremors.
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