Incidents on 25 August 2025

M5.6 Earthquake — 174 km S of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia 22:13 UTC · Russia · USGS Moderate M4.6 Earthquake — northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge 21:47 UTC · Barbados · USGS Moderate M4.5 Earthquake — 132 km N of Semera, Ethiopia 20:00 UTC · Ethiopia · USGS Moderate M4.8 Earthquake — 151 km SE of Pondaguitan, Philippines 19:18 UTC · Philippines · USGS Moderate M4.9 Earthquake — 134 km NNW of Esmeraldas, Ecuador 18:10 UTC · Ecuador · USGS Moderate M4.6 Earthquake — 71 km SSW of Ollagüe, Chile 18:01 UTC · Chile · USGS Moderate M4.6 Earthquake — 15 km SSW of Nueva Concepción, Guatemala 06:54 UTC · Guatemala · USGS Moderate M4.7 Earthquake — 48 km NW of Pante Makasar, Timor Leste 06:53 UTC · Indonesia · USGS Moderate M6.1 Earthquake — east of the Kuril Islands 06:48 UTC · USGS Moderate M5.1 Earthquake — South Sandwich Islands region 06:36 UTC · USGS Moderate M4.5 Earthquake — 191 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia 04:54 UTC · Russia · USGS Moderate M4.9 Earthquake — 92 km E of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia 04:06 UTC · Russia · USGS Moderate M4.5 Earthquake — 116 km E of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia 04:00 UTC · Russia · USGS Moderate M4.6 Earthquake — 141 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia 02:56 UTC · Russia · USGS Moderate M4.4 Earthquake — south of Tonga 23:52 UTC · Tonga · USGS Minor M4.4 Earthquake — 139 km SE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia 22:59 UTC · Russia · USGS Minor M4.0 Earthquake — Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska 22:50 UTC · USGS Minor M4.3 Earthquake — 8 km SSE of Nunchía, Colombia 22:44 UTC · Colombia · USGS Minor M2.9 Earthquake — 28 km ENE of Ranchester, Wyoming 20:28 UTC · United States · USGS Minor M3.6 Earthquake — 24 km N of Koyuk, Alaska 20:24 UTC · United States · USGS Minor M4.2 Earthquake — 214 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia 20:10 UTC · Russia · USGS Minor M4.4 Earthquake — 53 km SSE of Nookat, Kyrgyzstan 17:59 UTC · Kyrgyzstan · USGS Minor M2.6 Earthquake — 13 km W of Stanton, Texas 17:58 UTC · United States · USGS Minor M3.0 Earthquake — Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska 17:20 UTC · USGS Minor M2.6 Earthquake — 53 km E of Ugashik, Alaska 16:36 UTC · United States · USGS Minor M4.4 Earthquake — 157 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia 15:02 UTC · Russia · USGS Minor M2.5 Earthquake — 57 km S of Whites City, New Mexico 14:27 UTC · United States · USGS Minor M3.0 Earthquake — 100 km S of Sand Point, Alaska 14:23 UTC · USGS Minor M4.3 Earthquake — 146 km SE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia 12:13 UTC · Russia · USGS Minor M2.8 Earthquake — 90 km S of Sand Point, Alaska 12:02 UTC · USGS Minor M4.3 Earthquake — 54 km WNW of Sola, Vanuatu 11:50 UTC · Vanuatu · USGS Minor M4.4 Earthquake — 8 km SE of Ramón Santana, Dominican Republic 11:40 UTC · Dominican Republic · USGS Minor M2.5 Earthquake — 1 km NE of Zurich, Kansas 11:19 UTC · United States · USGS Minor M2.9 Earthquake — 129 km WSW of Nikolski, Alaska 10:41 UTC · USGS Minor M2.7 Earthquake — 48 km SSE of King Cove, Alaska 10:02 UTC · USGS Minor M4.1 Earthquake — 19 km WSW of Punta de Bombón, Peru 09:40 UTC · Peru · USGS Minor M3.2 Earthquake — 275 km SW of Adak, Alaska 08:59 UTC · USGS Minor M4.2 Earthquake — 60 km E of Rāmhormoz, Iran 08:46 UTC · Iran · USGS Minor M3.3 Earthquake — 140 km W of Adak, Alaska 07:29 UTC · USGS Minor M3.7 Earthquake — 36 km SSE of Boca de Yuma, Dominican Republic 06:45 UTC · Dominican Republic · USGS Minor M2.6 Earthquake — 24 km SE of Unalaska, Alaska 06:13 UTC · United States · USGS Minor M3.0 Earthquake — 167 km WSW of Nikolski, Alaska 05:52 UTC · USGS Minor M3.4 Earthquake — 62 km ESE of Denali Park, Alaska 05:28 UTC · United States · USGS Minor M2.5 Earthquake — 10 km NE of Susitna, Alaska 05:16 UTC · United States · USGS Minor M2.7 Earthquake — 258 km WSW of Adak, Alaska 04:52 UTC · USGS Minor M4.1 Earthquake — 188 km SSW of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia 04:32 UTC · Russia · USGS Minor M4.2 Earthquake — 114 km ENE of Ozernovskiy, Russia 04:22 UTC · Russia · USGS Minor M4.2 Earthquake — southeast of the Loyalty Islands 03:52 UTC · Fiji · USGS Minor M4.2 Earthquake — 82 km SW of Ovalle, Chile 02:41 UTC · Chile · USGS Minor M2.6 Earthquake — 129 km SW of Adak, Alaska 02:30 UTC · USGS Minor M2.8 Earthquake — 106 km SSE of Sand Point, Alaska 02:15 UTC · USGS Minor M4.4 Earthquake — east of the South Sandwich Islands 02:06 UTC · USGS Minor M4.4 Earthquake — 42 km S of Ashkāsham, Afghanistan 00:09 UTC · Afghanistan · USGS Minor

2017 Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in Texas as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the United States since 2004. 2005 Hurricane Katrina makes landfall in Florida. 1997 Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill policy at the Berlin Wall. 1945 Ten days after World War II ends with Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Chinese Communist Party kill U.S. intelligence officer John Birch, regarded by some of the American right as the first victim of the Cold War. 1933 The Diexi earthquake strikes Mao County, Sichuan, China and kills 9,000 people.