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Moderate mag. 4.0 earthquake – Ceram Sea, 80 km north of Pulau Buru Island, Maluku, Indonesia, on Monday, May 19, 2025, at 01:55 pm (GMT +9)

Published: 18 May 2025
Categories: Global Earthquake Activity

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Date and TimeMag
DepthDistanceLocationDetailsMap May 8, 11:51 pm (GMT +9)

4.6

18 km78 km (48 mi) to the E Ceram Sea, 93 km northeast of Pulau Buru Island, Maluku, Indonesia InfoMay 5, 03:43 pm (Jayapura)

4.2

28 km96 km (60 mi) to the NW Southern Molucca Sea InfoMay 5, 07:39 am (GMT +9)

4.1

10 km10.5 km (6.5 mi) to the NE Ceram Sea, 89 km north of Pulau Buru Island, Maluku, Indonesia InfoApr 13, 02:39 pm (GMT +9)

4.3

7 km40 km (25 mi) to the SW Ceram Sea InfoApr 10, 01:55 pm (Jayapura)

4.1

10 km43 km (26 mi) to the SW Ceram Sea, 66 km northwest of Pulau Buru Island, Maluku, Indonesia InfoJun 24, 2021 11:42 am (Jayapura)

5.3

11 km97 km (60 mi) to the E Indonesia: Ceram Sea InfoNov 22, 2020 11:27 am (Universal Time)

5.3

10 km72 km (45 mi) to the ECeram Sea, 86 km southwest of Pulau Gommu Island, North Maluku, Indonesia 1 reportInfoJul 14, 2019 06:10 pm (Jayapura)

7.1

10 km288 km (179 mi) to the NE 168 km southeast of Ternate, Ternate, North Maluku, Indonesia 13 reportsInfoFeb 26, 2018 10:34 pm (GMT +9)

6.1

9 km11 km (6.8 mi) to the S194 km WNW of Ambon, Indonesia 1 reportInfoAug 21, 2006 09:49 pm (GMT +9)

5.3

10 km55 km (34 mi) to the W Ceram Sea, 77 km northwest of Pulau Buru Island, Maluku, Indonesia InfoJun 26, 2006 06:39 pm (Jayapura)

5.4

26 km80 km (50 mi) to the E Ceram Sea, 107 km northeast of Pulau Buru Island, Maluku, Indonesia InfoJun 23, 2006 04:20 am (GMT +9)

5.4

25 km71 km (44 mi) to the SE Banda Sea, 73 km northeast of

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Sakurajima Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: EXPLODED AT 20250519/0409Z FL120 EXTD E OBS VA DTG: 19/0410Z

Published: 18 May 2025
Categories: Global Volcano Activity

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Popocatépetl volcano (Mexico): eruptions go on

Published: 18 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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