Powerful quake kills 95 in Tibet, rattles Nepal

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake rocked the northern foothills of the Himalayas near one of Tibet's holiest cities on Tuesday, Chinese authorities said, killing at least 95 people and shaking buildings in neighboring Nepal, Bhutan and India.

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The quake hit at 9:05 a.m., with its epicenter located in Tingri, a rural county known as the northern gateway to the Everest region, at a depth of 10 kilometers, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center. The US Geological Service put the quake's magnitude at 7.1.