M5.0 Earthquake Recorded Near Afghanistan-Tajikistan Border Region

GEOFON GFZ reports M5.0 near Afghanistan-Tajikistan Border Region, with a 240.2 km catalog depth.

Published 2026-10-04T20:40:37.475Z · Updated 2026-10-05T07:26:40.291Z

Update: the reporting agency revised this event's catalog depth from 230.7 km to 240.2 km.

The event began at Sun, 04 Oct 2026 20:27:25 GMT. GEOFON GFZ reports magnitude 5.0, 240.2 km catalog depth, and coordinates 36.667, 71.139.

The catalog location label is Afghanistan-Tajikistan Border Region; no separate nearest-city field was supplied with this solution. By catalog depth, this is an intermediate-depth event. The magnitude-derived energy estimate is 2.00e+12 joules, or about 477 tons of TNT equivalent; that calculation describes source energy, not local damage.

The current catalog entry does not include a public felt-report count. No separate intensity or catalog-significance detail is available from this provider record. No official casualty or damage statement is attached to the normalized event evidence.

GEOFON GFZ has not supplied a review status in the normalized record. No station-count, phase-count, residual, gap, or uncertainty fields were supplied in the normalized record. No alternate network solution is attached to this record.

The provider record does not carry a tsunami flag at publication time. Magnitude, depth, and location can change as monitoring networks add observations and review the solution.