"The epicenter of the earthquakes have all been in Bange county, in Qinghai province in the northern part of Tibet," an official at the National Seismological Bureau in Beijing told AFP.

"The area is largely uninhabited, so so far no casualties or damages have been reported."

Earlier Sunday two quakes measuring 5.8 and 6.3 on the Richter scale shook the region about 500 kilometers (300 miles) north of the Tibetan capital Lhasa.

Monday's temblors occurred at 6:27 am and 6:45 am, (22:27 and 22:45 GMT Sunday), the bureau said.

The region sits on the Tibetan plateau between the Himalayan and Kunlun Mountains and is prone to earthquakes.

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