Powerful earthquake leaves trail of destruction in Tibet

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Videos shot by eyewitnesses on Tuesday (Jan 7) showed streets of Lhatse County in Tibet’s Shigatse covered in debris after a magnitude 6.8 earthquake rocked the northern foothills of the Himalayas, also shaking buildings in neighbouring Nepal, Bhutan and India in the process.  At least 53 people had been killed and 62 injured on the Tibetan side, China's state-run news agency Xinhua reported.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/h352f74w  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Videos shot by eyewitnesses on Tuesday showed streets of Lhatsi County in Tibet's Shigatse

00:09covered in debris after a magnitude 6.8 earthquake rocked the northern foothills of the Himalayas,

00:15also shaking buildings in neighboring Nepal, Bhutan and India in the process.

00:20China's state-run news agency Xinhua reported that at least 53 people had been killed and

00:2662 injured on the Tibetan side.

00:28The quake hit at 9.05 a.m. with its epicenter located in Tingri, a rural Chinese county

00:35known as the Northern Gateway to the Everest region, at a depth of 10 kilometers, according

00:40to the China Earthquake Network Center.

00:43The U.S. Geological Service put the quake's magnitude at 7.1.

00:48The epicenter was around 80 kilometers north of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain

00:53and a popular destination for climbers and trekkers.

00:57CCTV reported that Tingri has a population of approximately 6,900 people within a 20-kilometer

01:04radius and 27 villages within the area.

01:08Some 22,000 disaster relief items, including tents and folding beds, together with special

01:14relief materials for high-altitude and frigid areas, have been dispatched by central authorities

01:20to the quake-hit area.

01:22Over 1,500 local firefighters and rescue workers have also been dispatched to the ground.

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