The county has an area of , with rugged topography . Damxung is long and narrow , measuring from the northeast to southwest extremes , and at most . The county is tectonically active and was the epicenter of a 7.5 Mw earthquake in the north in 1952 and a 6.4 Mw earthquake in the south in 2008 . In November 2010 a moderate quake in Damxung at 5.2 on the Richter scale shook office windows in Lhasa . There were no casualties , but houses were damaged
6.4 Mw earthquake
2008 Damxung earthquake
Damxung County