Oct 22 (Reuters) – An earthquake of magnitude 7 struck China’s Tibet at around 10:33 p.m. local time (1433 GMT) on Thursday, the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC) said.
The epicentre was in a high-altitude county in Nagqu, northern Tibet, at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles), and the average elevation within 5 km of the epicenter is about 4,864 metres, CENC data showed.
The quake was clearly felt in the local area, CENC said. The epicentre was around 400 km away from the Tibetan capital of Lhasa.
(Reporting by Xiuhao Chen, Yukun Zhang and Liz Lee in Beijing, and Gnaneshwar Rajan in Bengaluru; Editing by Aidan Lewis and Timothy Heritage)
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