{"id":7352,"date":"2025-01-07T04:01:17","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T04:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/07\/nine-people-killed-as-powerful-earthquake-rocks-remote-region-of-tibet\/"},"modified":"2025-01-07T04:01:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T04:01:17","slug":"nine-people-killed-as-powerful-earthquake-rocks-remote-region-of-tibet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/07\/nine-people-killed-as-powerful-earthquake-rocks-remote-region-of-tibet\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine people killed as powerful earthquake rocks remote region of Tibet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            At least nine people have been killed after a powerful earthquake struck a remote region of Tibet on Tuesday morning, according to Chinese state media.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            The United States Geological Survey (USGS) said the 7.1-magnitude quake struck at 9.05 local time and was followed by multiple aftershocks.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Both the USGS and the China Earthquake Networks Center gave the epicenter location high up in the remote Tibetan plateau close to the Himalayan border with Nepal.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            Some village houses collapsed in the quake, state news agency Xinhua reported.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            The nearest major city to the epicenter is the holy city of Shigatse, which lies some 180 kilometers (111 miles) away.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            The city is the traditional seat of the Panchen Lama, the second-highest spiritual leader in Tibetan Buddhism, after the Dalai Lama.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            The USGS shake map indicated that tremors from the quake could be felt in neighboring Nepal and parts of northern India.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\">            This is a developing story and will be updated.    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least nine people have been killed after a powerful earthquake struck a remote region of Tibet on Tuesday morning, according to Chinese state media. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) said the 7.1-magnitude quake struck at 9.05 local time and was followed by multiple aftershocks. Both the USGS and the China Earthquake Networks Center [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}