A massive earthquake of magnitude 7 struck Tibet today, just two months after devastating Nepal glacier flood. 

China's Earthquake Networks Centre (CENC) said the quake struck at around 10.30pm local time (2.30pm UK time). 

Data indicated the epicentre was in a high-altitude county in Nagqu, northern Tibet, at a depth of 6.21 miles. 

It struck around 250 miles away from the Tibetan capital of Lhasa. CENC said the tremor was felt in the local area. 

It is not whether anyone has been injured or killed following the latest earthquake. 

Just last year, a 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck Tibet's Tingri County. Up to 400 people were killed in the region alone, while a further 13 were killed in Nepal. 

Damage was seen in northern India, while the tremors were felt across south Asia. 

Tibet is among the most earthquake-prone regions in the world. It sits on top of both the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates. 

Though their continual collisions created the Himalayan mountain range, they also create countless earthquakes. 

As a result, the country sits on top of many major fault lines, including the Altyn Tagh Fault and the Xianshuihe Fault System. 

In 2010, a magnitude 7.1 tremor struck Yushu, around 280 km away in neighbouring Qinghai province, killing at least 2,698 people and leaving nearly 300 people missing. 

The latest quake comes just a few months after Tibet and neighbouring Nepal suffered powerful and devastating floods. 

Following a series of flash floods and debris flows, at least 43 people died and 519 people went missing in Tibet. 

Nepal saw at least 1,455 people die and 5,285 people go missing.  

The UN's climate loss and damage fund moved Thursday to provide $20million (£15million) in aid sought by flood-stricken Nepal, the first time it has set aside money for any country, in a key test of the body's credibility.

In the first extraordinary meeting since its launch in 2022, the fund's board agreed to earmark the modest sum for the Himalayan country. 

'Hearing no objections, the decision is so adopted,' Camila Minerva Rodriguez Tavarez, co-chair of the board, said following a virtual meeting.

The decision does not, however, mean that Nepal will immediately receive the funding, which amounts to less than 0.5 percent of the government's $4.78billion (£3.57billion) estimate for reconstruction.

Twenty million dollars is the maximum amount countries can request in a single application.

Nepal will first have to present a proposal, and that proposal will have to be approved by the fund's board. There is no firm timeline for the process.

The creation of the 'Fund for responding to Loss and Damage' was hard-won by developing countries, and greeted with standing ovations, at the UN climate conferences of 2022 and 2023 (COP27 and COP28).

But since it became operational, critics have faulted both the meager pledges from governments - $822million (£614million) to date - and a disbursement cycle disconnected from climate disasters.

No money has been disbursed so far.

Source: dailymail.com