An earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale rattled through a remote part of Tibet Monday, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage, state media and local officials said. The quake hit at 7.08 am (2308 GMT Sunday) in a mountainous region of Zhongba county some 100 kilometres (62 miles) from Tibet’s border with Nepal, the Xinhua news agency said. "The earthquake happened around 7 am. We only felt a slight tremor. There’s no damage here, no windows broken. It is life as normal," Lapuqong, the head of the general office of Zhongba county government, told AFP. He said the epicentre was some 120 kilometres away (74 miles). "The government has sent a working group to the epicentre but they won’t arrive until this afternoon as the road conditions are bad," he said.
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