Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist
M 5.1mb
34 km NNW of Bāgeshwar, India
- When
- Magnitude
- M 5.1 (mb)
- Depth
- 10 km below the surface
- Felt
- 43 reports · strongest reported intensity V
- Measured shaking
- intensity V (ShakeMap)
- USGS impact alert
- green
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2 hours ago
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake was recorded 34 km NNW of Bāgeshwar, India at 16:53 UTC on 2026-10-06. 43 people have reported feeling it to USGS. This was a moderate earthquake. Shaking at this size can damage poorly built structures close to the epicentre.
How big was it?
This earthquake released about 670 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 6.1 would have released about 32 times as much.
- Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 250× the energy of this one
- Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 11× the energy of this one
- Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 7.9× the energy of this one
- This earthquake M 5.1 about 670 tons of TNT
- Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1,400× more
Energy from the Gutenberg–Richter relation (log10E = 1.5M + 4.8), rounded to two figures; bar length is magnitude, which is already a logarithm of energy. Magnitudes of past earthquakes from the USGS catalogue.
Where
Epicentre 30.1171, 79.6148. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Aftershocks so far
No further earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.
Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of . QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.
Revisions
USGS refines a solution as more stations report. Every change we have seen is listed here.
| What changed | From | To | When |
|---|---|---|---|
| reported intensity | 5.4 | 4.6 | |
| felt reports | 42 | 43 | |
| felt reports | 41 | 42 | |
| felt reports | 40 | 41 | |
| reported intensity | 4.4 | 5.4 | |
| felt reports | 37 | 40 | |
| impact alert | not reported | green | |
| measured intensity | not reported | 5.32 | |
| felt reports | 35 | 37 | |
| felt reports | 30 | 35 | |
| felt reports | 25 | 30 | |
| felt reports | 20 | 25 |
On USGS
- The official USGS event page — the source of record for every value above
- Did you feel it? Report it to USGS — reports go to USGS, not to us
- ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one
QuakeIndex does not issue warnings. For earthquake early warning see ShakeAlert.