The CCTV online report said there were a handful of communities within 5 kilometers (3 miles) of the epicenter, which was 380 kilometers (240 miles) from Lhasa, the capital of Tibet. The ...

For several thousand years, dry cow dung was used by Tibetans as their major fuel, and even in the 1970s there were still dung vendors to sell their goods on streets in Lhasa, capital of Tibet.