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4.5-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Nagaon, Assam

The National Centre for Seismology says the alert shows active seismic monitoring with impact assessments still pending.

Overview

  • The 4.5-magnitude quake in Nagaon, which struck Tuesday at 4:23:47 am IST, was recorded at latitude 26.428 N and longitude 93.060 E at a depth of 33 km.
  • Official notices from the National Centre for Seismology gave the event time and coordinates and did not report any immediate casualties or damage while local assessments are awaited.
  • An earlier, smaller tremor of magnitude 2.5 was recorded in Una, Himachal Pradesh, on Oct. 4 at a shallow depth of 9 km, according to the same NCS data feed.
  • The NCS issued both alerts on X and included links to the BhooKamp app, and current media items reporting the quake are drawn from those official social posts and agency feeds.
  • Assam lies in a seismically active region and officials will rely on aftershock monitoring and local inspections to judge any structural impact or need for emergency response.