A powerful earthquake struck a remote region of Tibet (China) and parts of Nepal. The death toll reaches more than 50 people. CNN reported this on January 7.

At 9:05 a.m. an earthquake of magnitude 7.1 was recorded in China.. Tremors were also felt in neighboring Nepal and southern India.. Numerous aftershocks occurred after the main earthquake. At least 53 people died.

The earthquake's epicenter was on the remote Tibetan plateau near the Himalayan border with Nepal, about 80 kilometers north of Everest. 62 people were injured and more than a thousand houses were damaged in Tingri district. The tremors were felt even in the capital of Nepal, Kathmandu..

" People ran out of their houses. You could see how the wires from the poles were loosened,” noted the Nepal Disaster Management Center.

Video from the scene shows damaged roofs and shop windows, streets covered with heaps of garbage.. This is what Lhatse district looked like, located 86 kilometers from the epicenter. It is also clear from the footage that parked cars and motorcycles were damaged..

The region near the epicenter is sparsely populated, but there are small villages in isolated and often inaccessible Himalayan valleys. It is reported that approximately 6.9 thousand people live in 27 settlements within a radius of 20 kilometers.

The nearest major city is Shigatse, which is approximately 180 kilometers from the epicenter. An earthquake was captured on surveillance camera footage from a local supermarket.. Store customers ran outside as goods fell from shaking shelves.

Tingri County has closed entry to a popular scenic area that includes China's Everest base camp.. Winter is not the most popular season for hiking the world’s highest mountain, but some tourists go there alone at such a time.

In Nepal's Solukhumbu district, opposite the border with the epicenter, tremors were reminiscent of the 2015 magnitude 7.8 earthquake. Then the number of victims reached approximately 9 thousand people, thousands more were injured.

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According to him, at a yak farm near the Nepalese base camp for climbing Everest, everything was shaking, and local workers were very scared.

In Tibet, aviation has already been involved in search work. As reported on local television, three villages lost contact before noon. Videos on social media show immigration officers digging through rubble with their bare hands.. Houses in populated areas were destroyed, walls were damaged, and some residents sat on blankets on the roadside and drank hot water to keep warm..

The China Earthquake Center has already recorded 49 aftershocks.. Xi Jinping called on officials to make every effort to minimize casualties and help those affected.

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