Reuters. Surveillance camera footage captured the moment the earthquake struck in Lhatse County in Tibet’s Shigatse city early on January 7, the traditional seat of the Panchen Lama, one of the most important figures in Tibetan Buddhism.
The U.S. Geological Service put the quake's magnitude at 7.1. It struck at 9:05 a.m. (0105 GMT).
At least 126 people were known to have been killed and 188 injured on the Tibetan side, China's media reported. There were no reports of deaths elsewhere.
The quake's epicentre was located in Tingri, a rural county known as the northern gateway to the Everest region, at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), according to the China Earthquake Networks Centre.
Video released by Tibet Fire and Rescue showed emergency personnel searching for survivors, digging through rubble and debris of heavily damaged houses in what was given as Shigatse city, the region’s second-largest city. Another video showed rescue workers moving a victim on a stretcher from the rubble of a damaged building, which Reuters could verify was in Shigatse city.
