China announces the death of 53 people after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck Tibet

HONG KONG – A 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck an area near one of Tibet's holiest cities on Tuesday, killing at least 53 people, Chinese state media reported.

The US Geological Survey said the quake, which was recorded just after 9 a.m. (8 p.m. EDT Monday), was centered at a depth of about 6 miles.

The earthquake, whose magnitude was recorded by Chinese authorities as 6.8, struck Dingri County in Shigatze, a mountainous region in western China on the border with Nepal. Shigatse is located about 240 miles from the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, and is the seat of the Panchen Lama, the second most important spiritual figure in Tibetan Buddhism after the Dalai Lama.

China's state-run Xinhua News Agency reported that at least 53 people were killed and 62 others were injured. Many houses near the epicenter collapsed and some people were trapped.

About 6,900 people live in more than two dozen villages about 12 miles from the epicenter, CCTV reported.

The radio added that the Chinese authorities sent nearly 1,500 fire and rescue personnel to the area. The full extent of the disaster is still being assessed.

The tremors were also felt in the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu, 250 miles away, where residents woke up to the tremors.

No damage was immediately reported there.

Earthquakes are common in the Himalayan region, which straddles a fault line between the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates. In the past century, 10 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or greater have occurred within a 150-mile radius of Tuesday's epicenter, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

In 2008, nearly 70,000 people were killed in a massive earthquake in southwestern China's Sichuan Province.

A 7.8-magnitude earthquake in 2015 killed nearly 9,000 people in Nepal and damaged nearly a million buildings, making it one of the deadliest earthquakes in the country's history.

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