Jan. 7 (UPI) — At least 126 people are dead and 188 injured after a strong earthquake struck a remote region of Tibet in China on Tuesday morning.
A 7.1-magnitude temblor struck at a depth of about 6 miles just after 9 a.m. local time in Tibet’s Dingri County, a mountainous region located near the border with Nepal and Mount Everest, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
The China Earthquake Networks Center, which measured the initial earthquakeas a magnitude 6.8, recorded several aftershocks with the most recent at 2:08 p.m. local time.
More than 1,000 buildings were damaged or destroyed and tremors were felt as far away as Bhutan and northern India.
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