At least 126 people were killed in Tibet by this week's earthquake of magnitude 6.8, the fifth-deadliest since 2008, data from China's National Earthquake Data Center shows.
A 5.5-magnitude earthquake jolted Madoi County in Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of northwest China's Qinghai Province at 3:44 p.m. Wednesday (Beijing Time), according to the China Earthquake ...
Earthquakes in China happen most frequently on the Tibetan ... have struck in Yunnan province to the south of Sichuan and in Qinghai and Gansu provinces. Here's a list of major recent earthquakes ...
Southwestern parts of China, Nepal and northern India are often hit by earthquakes caused by the collision of the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates, which are pushing up an ancient sea that is now ...
The seismically active area is where the India and Eurasia plates clash and cause uplifts that can be strong enough to change the heights of Himalayan peaks ...
A powerful 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck western China near Nepal, killing over 50 people. This is one of the deadliest earthquakes in recent years. Major past earthquakes in China include the ...
data from China's National Earthquake Data Center shows. Quakes are common in China's areas of Tibet, Sichuan, Qinghai and Yunnan, especially on the edges of the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau above the ...