This was reported by the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center.
It is specified that the epicenter of the tremors was located 475 km north-west of the city of Shigatse. The focus lay at a depth of 10 km.
The earthquake was recorded at 20:07 UTC (23:07 Moscow time).
Earlier, an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.9 occurred off the coast of Papua New Guinea.