Beijing News (Reporter Zhou Yi) At 9:33 on March 20, a magnitude 5.9 earthquake occurred in Dingri County (28.63 degrees north latitude, 87.42 degrees east longitude) in Shigatse, Tibet, with a depth of 10 kilometers. Sun Shizhen, a researcher at the China Seismological Network Center, believes that the earthquake did not exceed the normal level of local seismic activity, and the impact was equivalent to a magnitude 2 to 3 earthquake in Beijing.
According to the China Earthquake Observatory Network News Catalog, a total of 111 earthquakes of magnitude 3 or higher occurred within 200 kilometers of the epicenter in the past 5 years. The largest earthquake was a magnitude 7.5 earthquake in Nepal on May 12, 2015 (159 kilometers from the epicenter). .
"From Lhasa, Tibet to Shigatse, the Ali region belongs to the Himalayan arc, and is located at the junction where the Indian plate subducts into the Eurasian plate all year round. A magnitude 5 to 6 earthquake is a normalized background. Therefore, a magnitude 5.9 earthquake occurred at this location. It does not exceed the normal level. "Sun Shizhen said that the local geological disasters are frequent and the population is small. The impact of this earthquake is equivalent to a magnitude 2 to 3 earthquake in Beijing.