Incidents on 23 October 2025

M2.6 Earthquake — 1 km ESE of Woodside, CA 23:45 UTC · United States · USGS Moderate M4.7 Earthquake — 231 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia 23:07 UTC · Russia · USGS Moderate M4.7 Earthquake — 120 km ESE of Pondaguitan, Philippines 22:14 UTC · Philippines · USGS Moderate M4.5 Earthquake — 29 km NE of San Martín, Argentina 21:22 UTC · Argentina · USGS Moderate M4.7 Earthquake — 85 km E of Tomioka, Japan 21:09 UTC · Japan · USGS Moderate M4.6 Earthquake — 78 km S of Sand Point, Alaska 16:27 UTC · USGS Moderate M5.0 Earthquake — Falkland Islands region 14:25 UTC · Argentina · USGS Moderate M5.6 Earthquake — 213 km WSW of Tual, Indonesia 11:46 UTC · Indonesia · USGS Moderate M4.8 Earthquake — 79 km SW of Pagar Alam, Indonesia 10:37 UTC · Indonesia · USGS Moderate M4.5 Earthquake — 206 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia 09:02 UTC · Russia · USGS Moderate M4.6 Earthquake — 31 km SSE of Lata, Solomon Islands 08:17 UTC · Solomon Islands · USGS Moderate M4.6 Earthquake — 164 km SE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia 07:03 UTC · Russia · USGS Moderate M5.2 Earthquake — 88 km WNW of Kirakira, Solomon Islands 05:20 UTC · Solomon Islands · USGS Moderate M5.2 Earthquake — 51 km E of Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea 04:07 UTC · Papua New Guinea · USGS Moderate M4.7 Earthquake — 209 km ESE of Ozernovskiy, Russia 02:53 UTC · Russia · USGS Moderate M4.7 Earthquake — 204 km ESE of Ozernovskiy, Russia 02:34 UTC · Russia · USGS Moderate M5.6 Earthquake — 183 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia 02:31 UTC · Russia · USGS Moderate M2.8 Earthquake — 8 km NNW of Lafayette, CA 22:36 UTC · United States · USGS Minor M4.2 Earthquake — 67 km E of Baculin, Philippines 21:02 UTC · Philippines · USGS Minor M2.6 Earthquake — 18 km SW of Leilani Estates, Hawaii 20:31 UTC · Kiribati · USGS Minor M2.6 Earthquake — 22 km ESE of Ruby, Alaska 20:16 UTC · United States · USGS Minor M3.3 Earthquake — 24 km SE of Wright, Wyoming 19:34 UTC · United States · USGS Minor M4.4 Earthquake — 277 km W of Houma, Tonga 19:26 UTC · Tonga · USGS Minor M2.6 Earthquake — 5 km NNE of Star Valley Ranch, Wyoming 18:15 UTC · United States · USGS Minor M3.5 Earthquake — 237 km SE of Chiniak, Alaska 13:29 UTC · USGS Minor M4.2 Earthquake — 32 km NE of Neiafu, Tonga 13:01 UTC · Tonga · USGS Minor M4.1 Earthquake — 201 km N of Baukau, Timor Leste 12:40 UTC · Timor-Leste · USGS Minor M4.2 Earthquake — 8 km ESE of Nantou, Taiwan 12:28 UTC · Taiwan · USGS Minor M2.9 Earthquake — 8 km N of El Moro, Colorado 08:05 UTC · United States · USGS Minor M4.2 Earthquake — 5 km SSW of Sacsamarca, Peru 04:54 UTC · Peru · USGS Minor M2.9 Earthquake — 12 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico 04:35 UTC · Dominican Republic · USGS Minor M4.4 Earthquake — Kermadec Islands region 04:01 UTC · Tonga · USGS Minor M4.3 Earthquake — 25 km SSW of Daniel Flores, Costa Rica 03:43 UTC · Costa Rica · USGS Minor M4.2 Earthquake — 184 km E of Ozernovskiy, Russia 03:10 UTC · Russia · USGS Minor M4.4 Earthquake — Kermadec Islands, New Zealand 02:57 UTC · New Zealand · USGS Minor M4.3 Earthquake — 197 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia 02:50 UTC · Russia · USGS Minor M3.1 Earthquake — 56 km ESE of Cruz Bay, U.S. Virgin Islands 02:29 UTC · United States · USGS Minor M2.8 Earthquake — 12 km SSE of Maria Antonia, Puerto Rico 02:22 UTC · Dominican Republic · USGS Minor M3.1 Earthquake — 7 km N of Westmorland, CA 00:04 UTC · United States · USGS Minor

2015 The lowest sea-level pressure in the Western Hemisphere, and the highest reliably-measured non-tornadic sustained winds, are recorded in Hurricane Patricia, which strikes Mexico hours later, killing at least 13 and causing over $280 million in damages. 2011 A powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake strikes Van Province, Turkey, killing 582 people and injuring thousands. 2007 A storm causes the Mexican Kab 101 oil platform to collide with a wellhead, leading to the death and drowning of 22 people during rescue operations after evacuation of the platform. 2004 A powerful earthquake and its aftershocks hit Niigata Prefecture in northern Japan, killing 35 people, injuring 2,200, and leaving 85,000 homeless or evacuated. 1993 The Troubles: A Provisional IRA bomb prematurely detonates in Belfast, killing the bomber and nine civilians. 1989 An explosion at the Houston Chemical Complex in Pasadena, Texas, which registered a 3.5 on the Richter magnitude scale, kills 23 and injures 314. 1983 Lebanese Civil War: The U.S. Marines Corps barracks in Beirut is hit by a truck bomb, killing 241 U.S. military personnel. A French Army barracks in Lebanon is also hit that same morning, killing 58 troops. 1982 A gunfight breaks out between police officers and members of a religious cult in Arizona. The shootout leaves two cultists dead and dozens of cultists and police officers injured. 1958 Canada's Springhill mining disaster kills seventy-five miners, while ninety-nine others are rescued. 1927 The Imatra Cinema is destroyed in a fire in Tampere, Finland, during showing the 1924 film Wages of Virtue; 21 people die in the fire and almost 30 are injured. 1666 The most intense tornado on record in English history, an F4 storm on the Fujita scale or T8 on the TORRO scale, strikes the county of Lincolnshire, with winds of more than 213 miles per hour (343 km/h).