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This is The World. I'm Carolyn Beeler. Marco Werman is away today. We begin at the top of the world in the Tibetan region of southwestern China.

Rescue workers there have rushed to the area around Mount

Everest, pulling people from rubble after a powerful earthquake. Emergency responders search for

victims in a destroyed neighborhood in footage airing on Chinese state TV.

For now, the death toll is estimated at roughly 100 people, though that number is expected to rise.

The 7.1 magnitude quake was strong enough to shake buildings on the other side of the Himalayas in Nepal and India, but its epicenter was a mountainous area held sacred by Tibetan Buddhists.

The world's Patrick Wynne is following the story from Bangkok. Patrick, what's the severity of

the damage in Tibet?

Very bad in some spots, though Tibet is a really enormous place. So when the quake hit

in their morning hours, some people were killed outright in their homes by crumbling walls, and then some

towns only felt very violent, shaking, but no big catastrophe. Here's what a tour guide named

Don Dock told me about the situation in Lhasa, Tibet's capital. Yeah, like broken houses and

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