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Sunday, Dec 21, 2025 12:31 | just now | By: EarthquakeMonitor
An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 occurred only 8 minutes ago 136 km northwest of Ternate, Indonesia, Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency reported.
The quake hit at a shallow depth of 10. km beneath the epicenter near Ternate, Kota Ternate, North Maluku, Indonesia, in the evening on Sunday, December 21st, 2025, at 9:21 pm 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 5.7. Other agencies reporting the same quake include the citizen-seismograph network of RaspberryShake at magnitude 5.7, and the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) at magnitude 5.7.
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 Bitung (pop. 137,400) located 130 km from the epicenter, Ternate (pop. 204,900) 136 km away, and Bitung (pop. 225,100) 137 km away.
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