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China · xi cang zi zhi qu བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས།

M2.8 Earthquake near pa li zhen ཕག་ར, xi cang zi zhi qu བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས། (China)

UTC time: 2026-02-19 17:54:05 UTC Local time: —
Magnitude
M2.8
Depth
234.6 km
Source
EMSC

xi cang zi zhi qu བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས། · pa li zhen ཕག་ར

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About this earthquake

A magnitude M2.8 earthquake was recorded near pa li zhen ཕག་ར, xi cang zi zhi qu བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས། (China) on February 19, 2026 at 17:54 UTC. The earthquake originated at an intermediate depth of about 235 km. Events of this size typically go unnoticed.

The data is provided by EMSC and cross-checked across seismological networks. China: over the past 24 hours, QuakeMap24 logged 3 earthquakes, the strongest at M5.1.

Details

ID
8a5b5b19c949ff02b24503a31678c117942902c1
Magnitude
M2.8
Depth
234.6 km
UTC time
2026-02-19 17:54:05 UTC
Local time
—
Country
China
State
xi cang zi zhi qu བོད་རང་སྐྱོང་ལྗོངས།
City
pa li zhen ཕག་ར
County
ya dong xian གྲོ་མོ་རྫོང།
Source
emsc
Coordinates
27.76450, 89.14010
Temperature
-14.2°C

Depth profile

Depth profile Depth: 234.6 km (Intermediate) Surface Shallow Intermediate Deep 0 km 70 km 300 km 700 km 234.6 km
Intermediate
234.6 km
234.6 km — deeper than the regional average (18.3 km)
Regional average: 18.3 km
Why depth matters

Intermediate-depth quakes are felt across a wider area but usually cause less surface damage.

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  • Paro International AirportBhutan · PBH · VQPR
    49.0 kmStraight-line distance

Source: OurAirports · Dataset date: 2026-10-05

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Context for this earthquake

05 Oct 2025 – 05 Oct 2026 · M ≥ 2.0 · 597 Catalogue entries

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