A huge magnitude 7.1 earthquake has hit the holy city of Shigatse, or Xigazê, in the autonomous region of Tibet in China.

This region has a history of large earthquakes, including the 2015 Nepal earthquake, or Gorkha earthquake, that killed some 9,000 people. "This is a very earthquake prone region which has ...

At least 126 people were killed by a powerful earthquake that rocked a remote region of Tibet on Tuesday morning. The quake was so strong that tremors were reportedly felt in neighboring Nepal and ...

[is] the only place on Earth where continental plates continue crashing today—and the source of catastrophes like the [7.8-magnitute] 2015 Gorkha earthquake that killed about 9,000 people and ...

Spokesperson Monika Jha stated that the tremor is an aftershock of the 2015 Gorkha earthquake, as reported by RSS.

Wildfires in Los Angeles County have very recently devastated hundreds of homes, cars and lives, highlighting the vital ...

It has been widely reported that China has approved the construction of the world’s largest hydropower dam in Tibet on the Yarlung Tsangpo river. When the river ...

For instance, following the 2015 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal, scientists observed that seismic velocity recovery was influenced by both mechanical damage and hydrological changes[2]. The study ...

“There has not been a big earthquake in Western Nepal for the last 520 years. So a lot of energy has been accumulated and earthquakes are the only medium to release that energy." “From Gorkha ...

To study the effect of fault discretization on geodetic source inversion, through the analysis of geodetic data on the 2015 Gorkha, Nepal, earthquake and synthetic tests, we investigated what kind of ...

A strong earthquake hit El Salvador on Thursday, causing residents to take to the streets, The Associated Press (AP) reported. The AP said there were no initial reports of damage from the earthquake.

PARAMUS, N.J. (PIX11) — A 2.4-magnitude earthquake was recorded near Paramus, New Jersey on Friday afternoon, according to the USGS. The earthquake was recorded just after 1 p.m. at a depth of ...