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M5.5 Earthquake near dian ga zhen སྟེང་ཀ་གྲོང་རྡལ།, gan su sheng (China)

UTC time: 2026-01-26 06:56:02 UTC Local time: —
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Magnitude
M5.5
Depth
10.0 km
Source
GFZ

gan su sheng · dian ga zhen སྟེང་ཀ་གྲོང་རྡལ།

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M5.5 Earthquake near dian ga zhen སྟེང་ཀ་གྲོང་རྡལ།, gan su sheng (China) · 2026-01-26 — Map showing the location of the epicenter
M5.5 Earthquake near dian ga zhen སྟེང་ཀ་གྲོང་རྡལ།, gan su sheng (China) · 2026-01-26 — Map showing the location of the epicenter

About this earthquake

On January 26, 2026 at 06:56 UTC, a magnitude M5.5 earthquake occurred near dian ga zhen སྟེང་ཀ་གྲོང་རྡལ།, gan su sheng (China). The hypocenter lay relatively close to the surface at around 10 km, increasing how strongly it was felt. Earthquakes of this magnitude can damage poorly built structures.

The event was recorded by GFZ. China: over the past 24 hours, QuakeMap24 logged 3 earthquakes, the strongest at M5.1.

Details

ID
c92bd5d895014ee09599394fa8cb14ad68a91c75
Magnitude
M5.5
Depth
10.0 km
UTC time
2026-01-26 06:56:02 UTC
Local time
—
Country
China
State
gan su sheng
City
dian ga zhen སྟེང་ཀ་གྲོང་རྡལ།
County
die bu xian ཐེ་བོ་རྫོང་།
Source
gfz
Coordinates
34.06000, 103.39000
Temperature
7.1°C

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 (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

Nearby population centers

Distances are straight-line distances from the epicenter. Population data: GeoNames.

PlaceDistanceDirectionPopulation
Dianga16.3 kmW15'993
Linxia172.1 kmN274'466
Tianshui223.6 kmE1'212'791

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Context for this earthquake

05 Oct 2025 – 05 Oct 2026 · M ≥ 3.0 · 555 Catalogue entries

Sufficiently reliable matching data are not currently available for a direct comparison. The area profile shows the available records and their limitations.

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Historical context nearby

Comparison with recorded earthquakes before this event within 150 km.

Magnitude rank#3
Earlier events M≥49
Earlier events M≥56
Compared since2025-01-19

The QuakeMap24 comparison dataset begins on 2024-03-23. Earlier earthquakes may not be included.

Strongest earlier events

M5.82025-09-26 21:49:59 UTC145.7 kmGansu, China M5.82025-09-26 21:49:58 UTC146.1 km M5.52025-09-26 21:50:00 UTC149.1 kmGansu, China [Land: China] M5.52026-01-26 06:56:01 UTC18.5 kmdian ga zhen སྟེང་ཀ་གྲོང་རྡལ། M5.42025-09-26 21:49:59 UTC140.1 kmEvent of magnitude 5.4, near of Lanzhou (Monde)

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