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Small magnitude 3.2 earthquake 22 km west of Royan, France

Published: 21 May 2025
Categories: Global Earthquake Activity

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Thu, 22 May 2025, 03:31 | BY: EARTHQUAKEMONITOR

A magnitude 3.2 earthquake near Royan, Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, was reported only 6 minutes ago by France’s Réseau National de Surveillance Sismique (RéNaSS), considered the main national agency that monitors seismic activity in this part of the world. The earthquake occurred at a very shallow depth of 5. km beneath the epicenter early morning on Thursday, May 22nd, 2025, at 5:23 am local time. The exact magnitude, epicenter, and depth of the quake might be revised within the next few hours or minutes as seismologists review data and refine their calculations, or as other agencies issue their report.
Our monitoring service identified a second report from the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) which listed the quake at magnitude 3.2 as well.
Towns or cities near the epicenter where the quake might have been felt as very weak shaking include Les Mathes (pop. 1,600) located 15 km from the epicenter, Saint-Palais-sur-Mer (pop. 3,700) 17 km away, La Tremblade (pop. 5,000) 19 km away, Vaux-sur-Mer (pop. 3,700) 20 km away, Royan (pop. 19,000) 22 km away, and Saint-Georges-de-Didonne (pop. 5,400) 25 km away. In Rochefort (pop. 29,400, 43 km away), Saintes (pop. 29,500, 54 km away), and La Rochelle (pop. 76,800, 59 km away), the quake was probably not felt.

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Ibu Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: GROUND REPORT OF ERUPTION AT 22/0036Z WITH VA MOV E

Published: 21 May 2025
Categories: Global Volcano Activity

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Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: SML VA EMS to 20000 ft (6100 m)

Published: 21 May 2025
Categories: Global Volcano Activity

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Background:

Volcán Popocatépetl, whose name is the Aztec word for smoking mountain, towers to 5426 m 70 km SE of Mexico City to form North America’s 2nd-highest volcano.  The glacier-clad stratovolcano contains a steep-walled, 250-450 m deep crater.  The generally symmetrical volcano is modified by the sharp-peaked Ventorrillo on the NW, a remnant of an earlier volcano. 
At least three previous major cones were destroyed by gravitational failure during the Pleistocene, producing massive debris-avalanche deposits covering broad areas south of the volcano.  The modern volcano was constructed to the south of the late-Pleistocene to Holocene El Fraile cone.  Three major plinian eruptions, the most recent of which took place about 800 AD, have occurred from Popocatépetl since the mid Holocene, accompanied by pyroclastic flows and voluminous lahars that swept basins below the volcano.  Frequent historical eruptions, first recorded in Aztec codices, have occurred since precolumbian

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