Overview
- Back-to-back earthquakes in Afghanistan’s Hindu Kush, which struck Saturday morning at 8:24 and 8:46 IST, measured 5.6 and 4.8 at about 170 km depth, according to India’s National Center for Seismology.
- Because the main shocks were deep in the mantle, tremors traveled far across the region while surface shaking stayed light.
- Residents in the Kashmir Valley and several northern Pakistani cities reported brief shaking, and officials said there were no immediate injuries or damage.
- Pakistan’s National Seismic Monitoring Centre also recorded a 5.5 event about 199 km deep in the Koh Hindu Kush that was felt in Islamabad, Peshawar, Swat, and Rawalpindi.
- Pakistan reported additional local quakes near Karachi (magnitude 3.4 at 10 km) and Pasni in Gwadar (magnitude 4.5 at 13 km), and the broader India–Eurasia collision zone remains high risk, with the 2005 Kashmir quake killing more than 73,000 people.