{"id":9933,"date":"2025-05-12T10:49:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T05:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=9933"},"modified":"2025-05-12T10:50:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T05:50:14","slug":"magnitude-5-5-earthquake-strikes-chinas-tibet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/asia\/magnitude-5-5-earthquake-strikes-chinas-tibet\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude 5.5 earthquake strikes China&#8217;s Tibet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, May 12 (Reuters) &#8211; An earthquake of magnitude 5.5 struck Tibet early on Monday, the China Earthquake Administration (CEA) said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The quake hit the city of Shigatse at 5:11 a.m. (2111 GMT), at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities have dispatched emergency response services and no casualties have been reported so far, CEA said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In January, more than 120 died in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/environment\/rescue-efforts-under-way-after-earthquake-tibet-kills-more-than-120-2025-01-08\/\">6.8-magnitude earthquake<\/a>&nbsp;that struck Tibet&#8217;s Tingri county, around 240 km (149 miles) away from Shigatse.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, May 12 (Reuters) &#8211; An earthquake of magnitude 5.5 struck Tibet early on Monday, the China Earthquake Administration (CEA) said. The quake hit the city of Shigatse at 5:11 a.m. (2111 GMT), at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles). Authorities have dispatched emergency response services and no casualties have been reported so far, [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":9934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,81,396],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-china","category-latest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}