M4.5 Depth: 10.0 km

M4.5 Earthquake near yan shi ping zhen ཡན་ཤིས་ཕིན།, xi cang zi zhi qu བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས། (China)

UTC time: 2026-03-02 01:30:46 UTC Local time:

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.

Details

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

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Depth profile

Depth profile Depth: 10 km (Shallow) Surface Shallow Intermediate Deep 0 km 70 km 300 km 700 km 10 km
Shallow
10 km
10 km — shallower than the regional average (20.3 km)
Regional average: 20.3 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

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