ANI — Updated Oct 7, 2025
A magnitude-3.2 earthquake struck a part of Tibet late Monday night, the National Center for Seismology (NCS) reported. The quake occurred at a shallow depth of 10 km on 06/10/2025 at 21:13:37 IST, with coordinates 29.28°N, 95.26°E, the NCS said in a post on X (formerly Twitter): https://x.com/NCS_Earthquake/status/1975231397515194669
The center warned that because the event was shallow, it could be followed by aftershocks. Earlier in the month, on October 2, the region experienced another shallow event of magnitude 3.7 at a depth of 10 km (28.42°N, 87.26°E), according to an NCS X post: https://x.com/NCS_Earthquake/status/1973545708323217734
Shallow earthquakes generally produce stronger surface shaking than deeper ones because seismic waves travel a shorter distance to the surface, increasing the potential for damage and casualties in populated areas.
Tibet sits on the seismically active Tibetan Plateau, where the northward push of the Indian tectonic plate against the Eurasian plate generates frequent earthquakes and ongoing uplift that created the Himalayas. Tectonic deformation across the plateau includes both strike-slip and normal faulting: strike-slip motion is more common in the north, while southward zones show east–west extension on north–south normal faults.
Geological surveys and satellite imagery from the late 1970s and early 1980s first identified seven north–south trending rifts and normal faults in southern Tibet. These structures began forming roughly 4–8 million years ago. The largest Tibetan earthquakes—around magnitude 8.0—occur along strike-slip faults, while normal-fault events tend to be smaller; in 2008, several normal-fault earthquakes across the plateau ranged from about magnitude 5.9 to 7.1.
(This report is based on a syndicated feed and NCS advisories; the Tribune publishes it as received and is not responsible for independent verification.)
