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Wednesday, Dec 17, 2025 01:58 | 30 mins ago | By: EarthquakeMonitor

Just 13 minutes ago, a 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck near Shikotan, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia. The tremor was recorded around noon on Wednesday, December 17th, 2025, at 12:44 pm local time, at a moderately shallow depth of 31. km below the surface.
The event was filed by the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC), the first seismological agency to report it.
Our monitoring service identified a second report from the citizen-seismograph network of RaspberryShake which listed the quake at magnitude 5.5 as well. Other agencies reporting the same quake include France’s Réseau National de Surveillance Sismique (RéNaSS) at magnitude 5.3, and the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) at magnitude 5.5.
Generally quakes of this magnitude are recorded by more than one agency and the results can vary, with subsequent reports that come in after the first one often showing more accuracy.
Based on the preliminary seismic data, the quake should not have caused any significant damage, but was probably felt by many people as light vibration in the area of the epicenter.
Weak shaking might have been felt in Shikotan (pop. 2,100) located 96 km from the epicenter.
VolcanoDiscovery will automatically update magnitude and depth if these change and follow up if other significant news about the quake become available. If you’re in the area, please send

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Wednesday, Dec 17, 2025 00:50 | 55 mins ago | By: EarthquakeMonitor

World map showing volcanoes with shallow (less than 50 km) earthquakes within 20 km radius during the past 24 hours on 17 Dec 2025 Number in brackets indicate nr of quakes.

Quakes detected near: Abu (7 quakes between mag 0.1-1.1), Akuseki-jima (2 quakes between mag 1.1-1.5), Apaneca Range (1 quake mag 2.1), Apo (5 quakes between mag 1.7-2.7), Aso (38 quakes between mag 0.1-3.6), Brennisteinsfjöll (7 quakes between mag 0.1-1.6)
Clear Lake (38 quakes between mag 0.2-2.2), El Chichón (2 quakes between mag 2.2-2.5), Etna (2 quakes between mag 1.3-1.4), Fourpeaked (2 quakes between mag 0.9-1.5), Geureudong (1 quake mag 2.7), Gran Canaria (2 quakes between mag 1.3-1.6), Hulubelu (1 quake mag 2.2), Katla (3 quakes between mag 0.3-1.1), Kilauea (2 quakes between mag 1.1-1.2), Kirishima (2 quakes between mag 0.5-1.1), Kolumbo (3 quakes between mag 1.7-2.6), Kozushima (1 quake mag 2.0), Krísuvík (4 quakes between mag 0.1-1.2), Kukak (1 quake mag 2.4), La Palma (1 quake mag 1.0), Ljósufjöll (5 quakes between mag 0.4-1.9), Loki-Fögrufjöll volcano (8 quakes between mag 0.3-1.6), Long Valley (2 quakes between mag 0.8-1.0), Masaya (1 quake mag 3.0), Mayotte Island (1 quake mag 1.6), Medvezhia (1 quake mag 5.1), Nakano-shima (2 quakes between mag 1.4-1.4), Okataina (Tarawera) (1 quake mag 2.7), Prestahnukur (1 quake mag

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Date and TimeMag
DepthDistanceLocationDetailsMap Dec 17, 03:27 am (GMT +10)

4.5

60 km55 km (34 mi) to the S North Pacific Ocean, 150 km southeast of Shikotan Island, Yuzhno-Kurilsky District, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia  I FELT IT InfoDec 16, 01:47 am (GMT +10)

4.5

50 km89 km (55 mi) to the N North Pacific Ocean, 99 km south of Iturup Island, Kurilsky District, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia  I FELT IT InfoNov 21, 02:17 pm (Sakhalin)

4.6

70 km121 km (75 mi) to the NW Sea of Okhotsk, 24 km northeast of Shikotan Island, Yuzhno-Kurilsky District, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia InfoOct 15, 12:05 am (GMT +11)

4.4

102 km41 km (26 mi) to the NW North Pacific Ocean, 83 km east of Shikotan, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia InfoSep 29, 10:47 am (GMT +11)

4.4

74 km67 km (42 mi) to the N North Pacific Ocean, 96 km east of Shikotan, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia InfoMay 30, 09:23 am (GMT +11)

5.4

63 km80 km (50 mi) to the NW North Pacific Ocean, 49 km east of Shikotan, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia 5 reportsInfoSep 29, 2023 03:40 am (GMT +10)

5.8

30 km106 km (66 mi) to the N North Pacific Ocean, 109 km southeast of Iturup Island, Kurilsky District, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia 1 reportInfoAug 7, 2022 11:40 pm (GMT +10)

5.9

62 km33 km (20 mi) to the N North Pacific Ocean, 108 km east of Shikotan Island, Yuzhno-Kurilsky District, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia 24 reportsInfoMar 3, 2021 07:22 am (GMT +10)

5.8

39 km67 km (42 mi) to the N North Pacific Ocean, 98 km east of Shikotan, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia 2 reportsInfoFeb 20, 2021

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