A magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck 122 km east of Yamada, Japan, at a shallow depth of 9.5 km. Learn why this region remains seismically volatile and what residents should watch for next.
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake struck just 23 km from the 2009 M7.8 epicenter near Vanuatu, highlighting persistent seismic stress in the Pacific’s volatile New Hebrides subduction zone.
A rare magnitude 4.5 earthquake struck 538 kilometers beneath the South Pacific, revealing intense fracturing within the subducting Pacific Plate as it sinks into the mantle transition zone near Fiji.
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake struck 86 km beneath the Solomon Islands, highlighting the region’s complex subduction tectonics and contrasting with the devastating shallow quakes of the past.
A rare deep-focus earthquake struck 550 kilometers beneath the Flores Sea, contrasting with the shallow destructive quakes that have historically devastated this Indonesian region.
A shallow magnitude 5.0 earthquake struck just 10 kilometers deep off Indonesia’s Sulawesi coast near Kendari, occurring in the same seismically active region that produced a destructive M7.5 temblor in 2001.
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake struck 10 km east of Ouranoupolis, Greece at shallow depth, rattling the gateway to Mount Athos as part of an active week-long seismic swarm in the North Aegean.
A shallow M5.1 earthquake struck near Mount Athos, Greece, amplifying shaking across the Northern Aegean. The tremor was the largest in a week-long swarm, highlighting the region’s complex tectonic setting between the North Anatolian Fault and the extending Aegean crust.
A shallow magnitude 5.0 earthquake struck off Papua New Guinea’s New Britain island, occurring just 45-50 km from the epicenters of devastating M7.8 megathrust earthquakes in 2000 and 2015.
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake struck just 3 kilometers from Tonga’s destructive 2023 M7.6 epicenter at 198km depth, highlighting ongoing stress redistribution in the volatile Pacific subduction zone.