A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Gorontalo in Indonesia. Global time and date of event 25/12/25 / 2025-12-25 17:01:45 / December 25, 2025 @ 5:01 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:01:45 / 5:01 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 258.786 km (161 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 123.6726 East, latitude 0.51 North, depth = 258.786 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000rkre. Unique identifier: us7000rkre. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Gorontalo. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop). The epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Gorontalo (c. 144 200 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 67 km E of Gorontalo, Indonesia.
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