At least 16 dead when powerful 7.0 magnitude earthquake strikes Tibet
More than a dozen people were killed and hundreds of homes destroyed when a magnitude 7.0 earthquake hit China's Tibet region on Thursday evening local time, according to local officials.
The United States Geological Survey said the quake occurred at 10:33 p.m. local time, with its epicenter 119 miles east-northeast of Nagqu, in a sparsely populated, high-altitude area of northern Tibet.
China's state news agency Xinhua, citing local officials, reported that at least 16 people were killed and 32 wounded in the earthquake, according to Agence France-Presse. More than 300 homes collapsed in the earthquake, Xinhua reported.
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