Magnitude
M4.5
- Depth
- 10.0 km
- Source
- GFZ
xi cang zi zhi qu བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས། · yan shi ping zhen ཡན་ཤིས་ཕིན།
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M4.5 Earthquake near yan shi ping zhen ཡན་ཤིས་ཕིན།, xi cang zi zhi qu བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས། (China)
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About this earthquake
On March 2, 2026 at 01:30 UTC, a magnitude M4.5 earthquake occurred near yan shi ping zhen ཡན་ཤིས་ཕིན།, xi cang zi zhi qu བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས། (China). With a focal depth of about 10 km, this was a shallow earthquake, whose shaking is usually felt more strongly at the surface. Tremors of this size are distinctly felt and can occasionally cause light damage.
The data is provided by GFZ and cross-checked across seismological networks. China: 3 earthquakes were recorded in the past 24 hours, the strongest reaching M5.1.
Details
ID
1c6c6414e81386bf0d37d68e59e0f4cc2d6c392d
Magnitude
M4.5
Depth
10.0 km
UTC time
2026-03-02 01:30:46 UTC
Local time
—
Country
State
xi cang zi zhi qu བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས།
City
yan shi ping zhen ཡན་ཤིས་ཕིན།
County
an duo xian ཨ་མདོ་རྫོང།
Source
gfz
Coordinates
33.49000,
91.39000
Temperature
-10.7°C
Depth profile
Shallow
10 km
10 km — shallower than the regional average (18.3 km)
Regional average: 18.3 km
Why depth matters
Shallow quakes release energy near the surface — shaking is felt more strongly and damage potential is higher.
Depth classes per USGS
China
Context for this earthquake
05 Oct 2025 – 05 Oct 2026 · M ≥ 3.0 · 555 Catalogue entries
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Stats (last 24h)
Global (24h)
615
Country (24h)
China
3