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Quakes last month
50
Latest UTC: 2026-02-28 17:01:52
Strongest
M6.0
China [Land]
Country rank
#21
90 quakes in 2026 · out of 21 countries
Averages
M4.28 · 23 km
Avg this month: M3.79

Overview – China

The latest recorded earthquake in China was on 2026-02-28 at 17:01 UTC in 西藏自治区 བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས། with magnitude M2.5.

In the last month, 50 earthquakes were recorded in China with an average magnitude of 3.79.

Most earthquakes in 2026 occurred in 西藏自治区 བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས། (37), followed by 新疆维吾尔自治区 شىنجاڭ ئۇيغۇر ئاپتونوم رايونی (23).

The strongest recorded earthquake in China reached magnitude M6.0 on 2025-12-04.

In 2026, 89% of events were M≥3 and 19% were M≥5.

All-time events
404
Strongest
M6.0
Latest (UTC)
2026-02-28 17:01:52 UTC

Strongest – China

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M6.0 China [Land]
UTC: 2025-12-04 07:44:09 UTC · Depth: 9 km

Map – China

Markers show the latest 30 earthquakes in China.

Recent earthquakes – China

Showing the latest 30 events from the QuakeMap24 database (UTC).

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M2.5 Depth: 10 km
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西藏自治区 བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས། · 日屋镇

Time (UTC) 2026-02-28 17:01:52 UTC
Coordinates 28.080, 87.640
Source emsc
M3.1 Depth: 5 km
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西藏自治区 བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས། · 定日县 དིང་རི་རྫོང།

Time (UTC) 2026-02-28 08:37:37 UTC
Coordinates 27.930, 87.270
Source emsc
M4.3 Depth: 10 km
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西藏自治区 བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས། · 雁石坪镇 ཡན་ཤིས་ཕིན།

Time (UTC) 2026-02-28 03:14:09 UTC
Coordinates 33.390, 91.240
Source emsc
M3.6 Depth: 55 km
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新疆维吾尔自治区 شىنجاڭ ئۇيغۇر ئاپتونوم رايونی · 黑孜苇乡 قىزىلئۆي يېزىسى / قىزىلۉي ايىلى

Time (UTC) 2026-02-28 01:16:13 UTC
Coordinates 39.810, 75.410
Source emsc
M3.8 Depth: 50 km
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西藏自治区 བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས། · 定日县 དིང་རི་རྫོང།

Time (UTC) 2026-02-25 06:30:39 UTC
Coordinates 28.030, 87.560
Source emsc
M4.8 Depth: 10 km
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云南省 · 昔马镇

Time (UTC) 2026-02-25 03:15:54 UTC
Coordinates 24.720, 97.640
Source gfz

Myanmar-China Border Region

M5.2 Depth: 10 km
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新疆维吾尔自治区 شىنجاڭ ئۇيغۇر ئاپتونوم رايونی · 尉犁县 لوپنۇر ناھىيىسى

Time (UTC) 2026-02-23 04:12:07 UTC
Coordinates 40.679, 84.298
Source resif

Event of magnitude 5.2, near of Ürümqi (Monde)

M2.6 Depth: 5 km
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西藏自治区 བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས། · 定日县 དིང་རི་རྫོང།

Time (UTC) 2026-02-22 19:24:03 UTC
Coordinates 28.100, 87.420
Source emsc
M4.4 Depth: 10 km
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云南省 · 昭通市

Time (UTC) 2026-02-22 11:50:45 UTC
Coordinates 27.096, 103.569
Source emsc
M3.8 Depth: 5 km
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西藏自治区 བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས། · 陈塘镇

Time (UTC) 2026-02-22 01:46:22 UTC
Coordinates 27.880, 87.430
Source emsc
M4.6 Depth: 40 km
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新疆维吾尔自治区 شىنجاڭ ئۇيغۇر ئاپتونوم رايونی · 查干郭勒乡 شاعانعول اۋىلى

Time (UTC) 2026-02-22 01:29:39 UTC
Coordinates 46.470, 90.890
Source emsc
M4.2 Depth: 10 km
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青海省 · 柴旦镇

Time (UTC) 2026-02-21 05:25:00 UTC
Coordinates 37.720, 94.990
Source gfz

Qinghai, China

M2.5 Depth: 27 km
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西藏自治区 བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས། · 琼孜乡

Time (UTC) 2026-02-20 23:17:20 UTC
Coordinates 27.930, 88.110
Source emsc
M3.3 Depth: 20 km
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西藏自治区 བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས། · 定日县 དིང་རི་རྫོང།

Time (UTC) 2026-02-20 00:22:05 UTC
Coordinates 28.270, 86.460
Source emsc
M2.8 Depth: 235 km
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西藏自治区 བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས། · 帕里镇 ཕག་ར

Time (UTC) 2026-02-19 17:54:05 UTC
Coordinates 27.765, 89.140
Source emsc
M2.7 Depth: 10 km
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西藏自治区 བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས། · 定日县 དིང་རི་རྫོང།

Time (UTC) 2026-02-19 12:49:21 UTC
Coordinates 28.450, 87.410
Source emsc
M3.2 Depth: 10 km
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云南省 · 景洪市

Time (UTC) 2026-02-19 09:32:03 UTC
Coordinates 21.996, 100.692
Source emsc
M5.0 Depth: 10 km
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新疆维吾尔自治区 شىنجاڭ ئۇيغۇر ئاپتونوم رايونی · 昭苏县 موڭعۇلكۇرە اۋدانى

Time (UTC) 2026-02-19 09:09:15 UTC
Coordinates 42.370, 80.660
Source gfz

Kyrgyzstan-Xinjiang Border Region

M3.7 Depth: 10 km
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云南省 · 景洪市

Time (UTC) 2026-02-19 05:37:31 UTC
Coordinates 22.007, 100.780
Source emsc
M4.1 Depth: 10 km
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西藏自治区 བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས། · 热帮乡

Time (UTC) 2026-02-19 04:40:40 UTC
Coordinates 33.530, 81.670
Source gfz

Xizang

M4.1 Depth: 10 km
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西藏自治区 བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས། · 热帮乡

Time (UTC) 2026-02-19 04:40:39 UTC
Coordinates 33.637, 81.690
Source usgs

western Xizang

M3.4 Depth: 10 km
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云南省 · 景洪市

Time (UTC) 2026-02-18 22:40:01 UTC
Coordinates 22.054, 100.800
Source emsc
M4.8 Depth: 10 km
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云南省 · 景洪市

Time (UTC) 2026-02-17 15:05:16 UTC
Coordinates 22.130, 100.880
Source gfz

Myanmar-China Border Region

M3.7 Depth: 18 km
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新疆维吾尔自治区 شىنجاڭ ئۇيغۇر ئاپتونوم رايونی · 库车市 كۇچار شەھىرى

Time (UTC) 2026-02-17 15:01:55 UTC
Coordinates 41.656, 83.316
Source emsc
M3.8 Depth: 128 km
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西藏自治区 བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས། · 多布扎乡

Time (UTC) 2026-02-17 08:41:24 UTC
Coordinates 28.448, 88.208
Source emsc
M3.9 Depth: 70 km
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西藏自治区 བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས། · 先遣乡

Time (UTC) 2026-02-16 16:42:23 UTC
Coordinates 33.000, 83.270
Source emsc
M4.6 Depth: 10 km
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新疆维吾尔自治区 شىنجاڭ ئۇيغۇر ئاپتونوم رايونی · 库兰萨日克乡 قۇلانساراق يېزىسى / قۇلانساراق ايىلى

Time (UTC) 2026-02-16 07:14:32 UTC
Coordinates 41.190, 78.520
Source isc

Kyrgyzstan-Xinjiang border region

M4.2 Depth: 10 km
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西藏自治区 བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས། · 郭加乡

Time (UTC) 2026-02-16 06:05:49 UTC
Coordinates 28.350, 87.630
Source emsc
M4.0 Depth: 10 km
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西藏自治区 བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས། · 物玛乡

Time (UTC) 2026-02-14 00:57:13 UTC
Coordinates 32.870, 83.280
Source emsc
M3.1 Depth: 1 km
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云南省 · 江城哈尼族彝族自治县

Time (UTC) 2026-02-13 15:27:46 UTC
Coordinates 22.379, 101.554
Source emsc

Charts – China

Distributions and trends based on the QuakeMap24 database.

Monthly activity (last 12 months)

2025-04
2
2025-05
35
2025-06
36
2025-07
30
2025-08
23
2025-09
42
2025-10
53
2025-11
38
2025-12
55
2026-01
40
2026-02
50
2026-03
0

Counts are per calendar month (UTC).

Magnitude distribution

0-1
0
1-2
0
2-3
21
3-4
97
4-5
225
5-6
60
6-7
1
7-8
0
8-9
0
9+
0

Based on the last 365 days (UTC).

Depth distribution

0-70
376
70-300
26
300-700
2
700+
0

Depth buckets are derived from the last 365 days (UTC).

Top regions – China

Regions are derived from the most specific available location fields (e.g. state, then city).

  1. 西藏自治区 བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས།
    Events: 175
  2. 新疆维吾尔自治区 شىنجاڭ ئۇيغۇر ئاپتونوم رايونی
    Events: 117
  3. 云南省
    Events: 32
  4. 四川省
    Events: 27
  5. 甘肃省
    Events: 18

FAQ – China

What is the latest recorded earthquake in China?
The newest entry in our database for China is dated 2026-02-28 17:01:52 UTC.
What was the strongest recorded earthquake in China?
The strongest recorded event in our database for China reached magnitude M6.0.
How many earthquakes are recorded for China?
QuakeMap24 currently contains 404 recorded earthquakes for China (all-time, based on our database).
What are typical average magnitude and depth in China?
Across all recorded events in China, the average magnitude is M4.28 and the average depth is 23 km.
Why do some events show city/state/village and others only a place name?
Locality labels depend on the available source data. Some providers deliver precise administrative levels; others provide a broader place description.
How can I explore more than the last 30 events?
Use the country history page for China to explore earthquake activity with filters.
How often is this page updated?
The content is generated from the QuakeMap24 database and refreshes as new events are ingested. Timestamps are shown in UTC for consistency.

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