When The Global Times announced that Beijing was going to build a cascade of nine large HPPs on the Yarlung Tsangpo, human ...

The epicenter of this 7.1 magnitude quake, appears to be within Dingri county, which comes under the administration of Shigatse, Xizang's second-largest city after Lhasa. Hence it is being referred to ...

Located close to one of Bolivia's major cities, La Paz, El Alto International is the highest international airport in the ...

Geologically, the Tibetan Plateau ranks among the most seismically active areas worldwide, serving as a convergence zone for the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates ...

As rescue workers waded through rubble in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake in China's remote Tibet region in January 2025 ...

The Jan. 7 quake in Tibet, the fifth-deadliest in China since the 2008 Sichuan temblor, destroyed more than 3,600 houses and ...

Thousands of aftershocks following the deadly Tibet earthquake early this month continue to cause havoc and instability in ...

Deadly earthquakes in the Himalayan region, with historical data and potential impacts on surrounding areas explained in ...

The magnitude 6.8 quake reduced to rubble roofs and walls at a monastery and a nunnery about 15 kilometers east of the ...

Rescuers inspect a damaged house following a powerful earthquake that struck Shigatse, southwestern ... was in the rural county of Tingri, with a population of about 60,000, located about 80 ...

The epicentre of the quake, one of the region's strongest in years, was in the rural county of Tingri, with a population of about ... prayers on Wednesday at the Tashilhunpo Monastery in Shigatse, ...

Rescue operations have focused on 27 villages within a 20km radius of Tingri, according to state ... monks on Jan 8 at Tashilhunpo Monastery in Shigatse, according to Xinhua.