World Earthquake Report for Tuesday, 16 December 2025

Wednesday, Dec 17, 2025 00:24 | 4 hours ago | By: EarthquakeMonitor

Worldwide earthquakes above magnitude 3 during the past 24 hours on 17 Dec 2025

Summary: 6 quakes 5.0+, 39 quakes 4.0+, 171 quakes 3.0+, 428 quakes 2.0+ (644 total)
Magnitude 5+: 6 earthquakes
Magnitude 4+: 39 earthquakes
Magnitude 3+: 171 earthquakes
Magnitude 2+: 428 earthquakes
No quakes of magnitude 6 or higherTotal seismic energy estimate: 3.1 x 1013 joules (8.73 gigawatt hours, equivalent to 7511 tons of TNT or 0.5 atomic bombs!) | equivalent to ONE quake of magnitude 5.8 learn more

10 largest earthquakes in the world (16 Dec 2025)

#1: Mag 5.3 Coral Sea, 242 km southeast of Uki Ni Massi Island, Solomon Islands

Tuesday, Dec 16, 2025, at 08:18 pm (GMT +11) –

#2: Mag 5.1 North Pacific Ocean, 135 km east of Hachinohe, Aomori, Japan

Tuesday, Dec 16, 2025, at 03:38 pm (GMT +10) –

#3: Mag 5.1 Southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge

Tuesday, Dec 16, 2025, at 12:44 pm (GMT -1) –

#4: Mag 5.1 Sea of Okhotsk, 163 km southeast of Kuril’sk, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia

Wednesday, Dec 17, 2025, at 10:34 am (GMT +11) –

#5: Mag 5.0 Alaska

Tuesday, Dec 16, 2025, at 02:35 pm (GMT -9) –

#6: Mag 5.0 Southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge

Tuesday, Dec 16, 2025, at 12:45 pm (GMT -1) –

#7: Mag 4.9 Sea of Okhotsk, 23 km northwest of Ostrov Matua Island, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia

Tuesday, Dec 16, 2025, at 09:08 pm (Sakhalin time) –

#8: Mag 4.8 South of the Fiji Islands

Tuesday, Dec 16, 2025, at 11:39 pm (GMT +12) –

#9: Mag 4.8 South Pacific Ocean, 175 km southwest of Nuku’alofa, Tongatapu, Tonga

Wednesday, Dec 17, 2025, at 02:21 am (Tongatapu time) –

#10: Mag 4.7 South Pacific Ocean, Fiji

Wednesday, Dec 17, 2025, at 09:29 am (GMT +13) –

Earthquakes reported felt

#1: Mag 2.1 13 km northeast of Greater Sudbury, Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada – 51 reports

Tuesday, Dec 16, 2025, at 05:05 am (GMT -5) –

#2: Mag 3.0 8 km south of Katowice, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland – 43 reports

Tuesday, Dec 16, 2025, at 01:01 am (GMT +1) –

#3: Mag 4.4 Departamento de Managua, 104 km southeast of Leon, Nicaragua – 33 reports

Monday, Dec 15, 2025, at 10:55 pm (Managua time) –

#4: Mag 3.2 Cayey Municipio, 39 km south of San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico – 18 reports

Tuesday, Dec 16, 2025, at 12:14 am (GMT -4) –

#5: Mag 4.3 Los Andes, Region de Valparaiso, 62 km northeast of Santiago, Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan, Chile – 17 reports

Tuesday, Dec 16, 2025, at 04:42 am (Santiago time) –

#6: Mag 3.8 21 km northeast of Antalya, Antalya, Turkey – 11 reports

Tuesday, Dec 16, 2025, at 04:11 pm (Istanbul time) –

#7: Mag 2.9 Contra Costa County, 14 mi north of Fremont, Alameda County, California, United States – 9 reports

Tuesday, Dec 16, 2025, at 05:53 am (GMT -8) –

#8: Mag 4.5 27 km southeast of Copiapo, Copiapo, Region de Atacama, Chile – 5 reports

Tuesday, Dec 16, 2025, at 03:10 am (Santiago time) –

#9: Mag 2.3 2.6 mi southeast of San Ramon, Contra Costa County, California, United States – 5 reports

Monday, Dec 15, 2025, at 06:12 pm (GMT -8) –

#10: Mag 3.3 14 mi north of Oxnard, Ventura County, California, United States – 4 reports

Tuesday, Dec 16, 2025, at 07:06 am (GMT -8) –

#11: Mag 2.7 9.6 mi north of Santa Paula, Ventura County, California, United States – 3 reports

Monday, Dec 15, 2025, at 05:29 pm (GMT -8) –

#12: Mag 4.6 North Pacific Ocean, 36 km southeast of Kesennuma, Miyagi, Japan – 3 reports

Tuesday, Dec 16, 2025, at 11:45 am (GMT +9) –

#13: Mag 5.1 North Pacific Ocean, 135 km east of Hachinohe, Aomori, Japan – 2 reports

Tuesday, Dec 16, 2025, at 03:38 pm (GMT +10) –

#14: Mag 3.2 39 km north of Pátrai, Achaea, West Greece, Greece – 2 reports

Tuesday, Dec 16, 2025, at 08:30 am (GMT +2) –

#15: Mag 5.0 Alaska – 2 reports

Tuesday, Dec 16, 2025, at 02:35 pm (GMT -9) –

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