Magnitude 4.0 Earthquake Rattles Bay Area
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A Quake Shakes Hawaii Only Minutes After The Volcano's Eruption Stops
Hawaii's restless landscape delivered another dramatic reminder of nature's raw power this week. The Big Island, home to one of the world's most active volcanoes, experienced a jarring sequence of events that left residents shaken and scientists closely monitoring the situation.
Ethiopia’s Afar and Oromia regions have been hit by several earthquakes and tremors since the beginning of 2025. The strongest, with a magnitude of 5.7, struck on 4 January. The US Geological Survey and the German Research Centre for Geosciences reported that its epicentre was 142km east of the capital,
The magnitude-4.6 earthquake was felt as far away as Honolulu, and shook the islands just as the most recent volcanic eruption was winding down.
A local administrator said there was no previous record of an eruption by the Hayli Gubbi volcano and that he fears for the livelihoods of residents.
November remained one of the most seismically active months of the year 2025, with a rare volcanic eruption in Ethiopia and a cluster of moderate to strong earthquakes rattling countries across Asia.
The volcano near Naples is shaking the ground in a way that scientists say it hasn't for centuries, posing risks for hundreds of thousands of people living in the 8-mile-wide crater left by past eruptions.
More damaging than the earthquake was the fatal tsunami that swept the island’s shores shortly afterwards. Campers at Halape, on the south coast in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, were awakened by the shaking and by rockfalls from the pali above that the shaking triggered.
Mount Semeru in East Java erupted again on Nov 28, 2025, marking 50 eruptions in the last week. Its activity level is Alert (Level IV). PVMBG warns against activities near Besuk Kobokan. It's the most
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Volcano in Ethiopia erupts for first time in nearly 12,000 years: "It felt like a sudden bomb"
"While no human lives and livestock have been lost so far, many villages have been covered in ash and as a result their animals have little to eat," an official said.
Multiple earthquakes, the largest a 4.3 magnitude temblor, struck near Gilroy early Thursday morning, according to the United States Geological Survey. Here’s a breakdown of the earthquake activity. 6:16 a.