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Moderate mag. 4.1 earthquake – Indonesia on Wednesday, Jul 16, 2025, at 04:53 am (GMT +9)

Published: 15 July 2025
Categories: Global Earthquake Activity

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Date and TimeMag
DepthDistanceLocationDetailsMap Jul 13, 11:18 pm (GMT +9)

4.8

178 km31 km (19 mi) to the E Banda Sea, 101 km northeast of Pulau Dai Island, Maluku, Indonesia  I FELT IT InfoJul 10, 11:43 pm (GMT +9)

4.9

163 km8.4 km (5.2 mi) to the NE Banda Sea, 86 km north of Pulau Dai Island, Maluku, Indonesia  I FELT IT – 1 reportInfoJul 9, 06:37 pm (GMT +9)

4.7

170 km42 km (26 mi) to the NE Banda Sea, 115 km northeast of Pulau Dai Island, Maluku, Indonesia  I FELT IT InfoJul 5, 11:35 pm (Jayapura)

4.8

163 km68 km (42 mi) to the NE Banda Sea, 147 km north of Pulau Dai Island, Maluku, Indonesia InfoJul 3, 11:46 am (GMT +9)

4.2

123 km41 km (26 mi) to the N Banda Sea, 168 km northwest of Pulau Selu Island, Maluku, Indonesia InfoNov 8, 2023 10:02 pm (Jayapura)

6.7

10 km80 km (50 mi) to the N Banda Sea, 201 km north of Pulau Wetan Island, Maluku, Indonesia 1 reportInfoNov 8, 2023 01:53 pm (GMT +9)

7.1

6 km58 km (36 mi) to the NW Banda Sea InfoNov 8, 2023 01:52 pm (GMT +9)

6.7

10 km46 km (29 mi) to the N Banda Sea, 164 km north of Pulau Wetan Island, Maluku, Indonesia 7 reportsInfoSep 22, 2023 11:59 pm (Jayapura)

6.6

214 km31 km (20 mi) to the S Indonesia: Di Laut 184 Km Barat Laut Tanimbar 215 reportsInfoMay 25, 2023 12:49 am (Jayapura)

6.2

158 km35 km (22 mi) to the W Banda Sea 739 reportsInfoJan 10, 2023 02:47 am (Jayapura)

7.9

131 km59 km (37 mi) to the SE Banda Sea, 101 km

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Moderate mag. 4.2 earthquake – 54 km southwest of Mendi, Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea, on Wednesday, Jul 16, 2025, at 04:51 am (Port Moresby time)

Published: 15 July 2025
Categories: Global Earthquake Activity

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Date and TimeMag
DepthDistanceLocationDetailsMap May 29, 09:37 pm (GMT +10)

4.6

10 km55 km (34 mi) to the W Southern Highlands Province, 66 km south of Tari, Hela, Papua New Guinea 1 reportInfoMay 16, 06:00 am (Port Moresby)

4.7

5 km38 km (23 mi) to the E 20 km southwest of Mendi, Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea InfoMay 2, 07:42 am (Port Moresby)

4.7

163 km82 km (51 mi) to the W Western Province, 59 km southwest of Tari, Papua New Guinea InfoApr 26, 09:17 pm (Port Moresby)

4.5

10 km60 km (37 mi) to the N Hela, 51 km northwest of Mendi, Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea InfoJan 26, 11:52 pm (Port Moresby)

4.8

10 km35 km (22 mi) to the E 31 km south of Mendi, Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea InfoApr 3, 2023 04:04 am (Port Moresby)

7.0

70 km235 km (146 mi) to the N 40 km ESE of Ambunti, Papua New Guinea 109 reportsInfoSep 9, 2022 11:12 pm (Port Moresby)

5.2

10 km68 km (42 mi) to the NW Hela, 18 km southwest of Tari, Papua New Guinea 2 reportsInfoDec 17, 2020 02:08 am (Port Moresby)

5.2

14 km12 km (7.7 mi) to the NW 61 km southwest of Mendi, Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea 2 reportsInfoApr 7, 2018 12:56 pm (Port Moresby)

5.5

10 km66 km (41 mi) to the W 59 km southwest of Tari, Papua New Guinea InfoMar 7, 2018 12:13 am (Port Moresby)

6.7

20 km73 km (45 mi) to the W 57 km southwest of Tari, Papua New Guinea 9 reportsInfoMar 5, 2018 05:56 am (Port Moresby)

6.0

10 km74 km (46 mi) to

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Popocatépetl Volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: PSBL CONT VA EM

Published: 15 July 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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