Powerful earthquake leaves trail of destruction in Tibet

Powerful earthquake leaves trail of destruction in Tibet

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake rocked the northern foothills of the Himalayas near one of Tibet's holiest cities on Tuesday (January 7), killing at least 32 people and shaking buildings in neighboring Nepal, Bhutan and India.

Surveillance camera footage captured the moment the earthquake struck in Lhatse County in Tibet’s Shigatse city, the traditional seat of the Panchen Lama, one of the most important figures in Tibetan Buddhism.

The quake hit at 9:05 a.m. (0105 GMT), with its epicenter 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.

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