Overview
- India’s National Center for Seismology reported a magnitude 4.9 earthquake in Xinjiang on March 5 at 05:45:44 IST at 43.55 N, 86.12 E and 10 km depth.
- A magnitude 4.3 earthquake in Pakistan was recorded on March 4 at 22:52:15 IST at 28.85 N, 67.15 E and 10 km depth.
- Initial dispatches noted no immediate damage, and no verified casualty information was included.
- The notifications were issued via NCS posts on X, providing standardized time, location, magnitude and depth details.
- Coverage places the events in regional context, citing China’s long record of large earthquakes and Pakistan’s plate-boundary exposure with vulnerable provinces such as Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan.