Published by World Tibet Network News - Monday, November 3, 1997 Part 2BEIJING, Nov 3 (Reuters) - An earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale struck an area of southern Tibet on Monday, but there were no immediate reports of casualties, China's official Xinhua news agency reported.
In a report from Lhasa, capital of the Chinese-ruled Himalayan region, Xinhua said the quake jolted sparsely-populated Gyirong County at 10:20 a.m. Beijing time (0220 GMT). It gave no further details.
