BEIJING, July 7 – A moderate earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale rattled China’s mountainous Tibet region on Monday but no casualties were reported, state television and a seismological official said.
The tremor struck at 2:55 p.m. (0655 GMT) in Bange county on Tibet’s border with the northwestern province of Qinghai, an official with the National Seismological Bureau told Reuters.
“It was 300 km (180 miles) from the county town. We haven’t heard of any casualties yet. I estimate there were no casualties since it is a sparsely populated area,” said the official, who declined to be identified.
Tibet is home to about 2.6 million people, including many nomads and herders.
In May, a 5.8 magnitude quake killed one person and injured three in China’s northwest region of Xinjiang, where a 6.8 magnitude quake killed more than 250 people in February.
