Magnitude 5.9 quake jolts Tibet

A magnitude 5.9 earthquake jolted Dingri county in the Tibet autonomous region at 9:33 am on Friday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.

The epicenter, at a depth of 10 kilometers, was monitored at 28.63 degrees north latitude and 87.42 degrees east longitude, the center reported.

Areas in a radius of 200 km have counted 111 quakes above magnitude 3 in the last five years. The strongest, measured at magnitude 7.5, hit Nepal in 2015, 159 km from Friday's epicenter.

Dingri county is in Tibet's Shigatse prefecture, where the average altitude tops 5,000 meters. The county is located at the base of Qomolangma (Mount Everest) and is part of the Qomolangma National Nature Reserve.