India Earthquake Today — Live Map & Recent Quakes
Track India earthquake today in real time with live map data and latest tremors updated every 60s from USGS. India's northern regions are highly seismic due to the ongoing collision between the Indian and Eurasian plates.
Quakes Today
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Earthquakes in India
1 events · Past 7 Days
- M4.2
25 km NW of Sarupathar, India
123 km deep
·5d ago
M4.2123 km5d ago
About Earthquake Activity in India
India encompasses one of the most dramatic tectonic collision zones on Earth along its northern frontier, paired with active intraplate fault systems across the peninsula. More than 58% of India's landmass is classified as vulnerable to moderate to severe earthquake shaking.
Why does India experience earthquakes?
India's seismicity is dominated by the colossal continental collision of the Indian Plate smashing northward into the Eurasian Plate at approximately 4 to 5 centimeters per year. Over millions of years, this ongoing collision has thrust the Himalayas upward to the highest elevations on Earth. The 2,500-kilometer Himalayan arc stores enormous tectonic strain along the Main Himalayan Thrust (MHT), generating repeated M7.5 to M8.5 catastrophic earthquakes. Further south, intraplate stresses within the Indian subcontinent occasionally rupture ancient rift faults, producing devastating intraplate events like Killari (Latur) and Bhuj.
Key Facts About India Seismicity
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NCS
National Center for Seismology
- Main Himalayan Thrust (MHT)
- Main Frontal Thrust (MFT)
- Kutch Mainland Fault (Gujarat)
- Narmada-Son Lineament
Ongoing continental collision of Indian Plate into Eurasian Plate
- 2001 Bhuj (Gujarat) EarthquakeM7.7
- 1950 Assam-Tibet Great EarthquakeM8.6
- 1993 Latur (Killari) Intraplate QuakeM6.2
Frequently Asked Questions About Earthquakes in India
Expert answers to common questions about seismic risks, fault lines, and earthquake activity in India.
Check our live map above for earthquakes detected in India, the Himalayan belt, Gujarat, and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands over the last 24 hours.
The Indian tectonic plate is continuously colliding with the Eurasian Plate at a rate of roughly 4 to 5 cm per year, pushing up the Himalayas and creating massive tectonic stress along thrust faults across Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and the Northeast.
On January 26, 2001, a devastating magnitude 7.7 intraplate earthquake struck the Kutch district of Gujarat, killing over 20,000 people and flattening thousands of residential structures.
The Bureau of Indian Standards classifies India into four seismic zones: Zone II (low risk), Zone III (moderate), Zone IV (high risk, including Delhi and parts of the Gangetic plain), and Zone V (very high risk, covering the entire Northeast, Kashmir, and parts of Gujarat and Uttarakhand).
The National Center for Seismology (NCS) under the Ministry of Earth Sciences is the nodal government agency responsible for recording earthquakes and running the national seismological network across India.