Definitions

1. Yushu is the Chinese name for Jyekundo, the biggest town in Kham, Eastern Tibet.
2. Yushu is in a part of Qinghai province, bordering the Tibet Autonomous Region, historically known to Tibetans as Amdo.
3. Yushu is close to the source of three rivers on the Tibetan Plateau.

Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

1. I am very saddened by the news of the devastating earthquake that struck Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province.
2. It originated in the Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai, at 7:49 am local time.

Sunday

1. Sunday, the 7.1- magnitude quake, which struck the Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yushu at 7:49 a.m.

Tibetan Plateau

1. Yushu is close to the source of three rivers on the Tibetan Plateau.

Tibet

1. The Tibetans from Yushu are considered to be some of the best dancers in all of Tibet.

Ethnic Tibetans

1. Inhabitants of Yushu are 97 percent ethnic Tibetans, thought to be more sympathetic to the Dalai Lama and his claims for Tibetan autonomy.

Kham

1. Jiegu is the main town in Yushu, a Tibetan-populated area in the eastern Tibetan area of Kham (Chinese province: Qinghai).
2. Yushu is the Chinese name for Jyekundo, the biggest town in Kham, Eastern Tibet.

Yushu

1. A series of tremors and 18 aftershocks brought down brick and wooden houses in Yushu, Qinghai province, on the rugged Tibetan Plateau.
2. The northernmost region of Kham, Yushu, has been a part of Qinghai province since the 18th century.
3. Yushu is in a part of Qinghai province, bordering the Tibet Autonomous Region, historically known to Tibetans as Amdo.

Categories

1. Qinghai Province
2. Kham
3. Tibetans
4. Aftershocks
5. Wooden Houses
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