A magnitude 5.3 earthquake jolted Zadoi County, Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, in northwest China's Qinghai Province at 4:39 p.m. on Saturday (Beijing time), according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC), Xinhua reported. The epicentre, at a depth of 10 km, was monitored at 32.54 degrees north latitude and 93.97 degrees east longitude, the centre said.

Source: Xinhua via People's Daily, Oct 24, 2026

The German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) independently recorded a magnitude 5.3 earthquake in China's Tibet region on Saturday at a depth of 10 km, Reuters reported — the same border area of the Tibetan Plateau, which seismologists place across the Qinghai-Tibet boundary near Nagqu. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage from Saturday's earthquake, PTI reported.

Source: Reuters via GFZ, Oct 24, 2026

Saturday's quake came two days after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Baqen County in Nagqu, in the Tibet Autonomous Region, at 10:33 p.m. on Thursday, killing 16 people and injuring 76, PTI reported, citing the continuing rescue operation. The Tibet quake zone has since recorded 834 aftershocks, including eight measuring between 4.0 and 4.9, and 12,489 residents have been evacuated, the report said.

Source: PTI via The CSR Journal, Oct 24, 2026

All 76 injured people from Thursday's quake were receiving medical treatment, and five of the 11 people initially classified as seriously injured had improved to mild conditions, according to Xinhua, as cited in the PTI report. More than 52,450 relief items — including tents, prefabricated houses, folding beds and cold-weather supplies — have been dispatched to the Tibet quake zone, with more than 2,500 rescue personnel working across 35 temporary resettlement sites, the report said.

Source: PTI via The CSR Journal, Oct 24, 2026

The Tibetan Plateau is prone to powerful earthquakes because it lies where the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates collide, PTI noted. CENC gave no casualty or damage assessment for the Zadoi quake in its first report, and authorities in Qinghai had not announced any emergency response specific to Saturday's tremor by the time of publication. Sources: Xinhua reporting CENC; Reuters reporting GFZ; PTI reporting on the Tibet rescue operation and the absence of immediate casualty reports for Saturday's quake.