M5.2 Shallow Earthquake Recorded Near Qinghai, China

GEOFON GFZ reports M5.2 near Qinghai, China, with a 10.0 km catalog depth.

Published 2026-10-20T10:43:30.025Z

The event began at Tue, 20 Oct 2026 06:41:23 GMT. GEOFON GFZ reports magnitude 5.2, 10.0 km catalog depth, and coordinates 37.735, 95.514.

The catalog location label is Qinghai, China; no separate nearest-city field was supplied with this solution. By catalog depth, this is a shallow event. The magnitude-derived energy estimate is 4.42e+12 joules, or about 1,055 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.