Earthquake: A strong 6.8 magnitude earthquake shook the North Pacific Ocean on Friday morning, in response to updates from the Nationwide Middle for Seismology (NCS). The tremor was recorded at 08:14:15 IST at a depth of round 40 kilometres.
Sharing the main points on X, the company wrote: “EQ of M: 6.8, On: 12/12/2025 08:14:15 IST, Lat: 40.95 N, Lengthy: 142.95 E, Depth: 40 Km, Location: North Pacific Ocean.”
EQ of M: 6.8, On: 12/12/2025 08:14:15 IST, Lat: 40.95 N, Lengthy: 142.95 E, Depth: 40 Km, Location: North Pacific Ocean.
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— Nationwide Middle for Seismology (@NCS_Earthquake) December 12, 2025
Simply three days earlier, on December 9, the identical area skilled a 6.5 magnitude quake at a deeper level of 80 km. The NCS had equally confirmed the occasion on-line, noting the coordinates and time of the seismic exercise.
EQ of M: 6.5, On: 09/12/2025 03:22:48 IST, Lat: 41.13 N, Lengthy: 143.09 E, Depth: 80 Km, Location: North Pacific Ocean.
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— Nationwide Middle for Seismology (@NCS_Earthquake) December 8, 2025
The world lies alongside the world’s most lively earthquake zone the circum Pacific seismic belt, higher generally known as the “Ring of Fireplace.” In keeping with the USGS, practically 81% of the world’s strongest earthquakes originate alongside this horseshoe formed stretch that rims the Pacific Ocean. The area is shaped by the collision and subduction of main tectonic plates, the place oceanic plates slide beneath continental ones, triggering frequent and intense seismic occasions.
A few of historical past’s most damaging earthquakes together with the 1960 Valdivia quake in Chile (magnitude 9.5) and the 1964 Alaska earthquake (magnitude 9.2) have been generated inside this belt. Globally, scientists estimate that round 500,000 earthquakes are detected annually; about 100,000 are robust sufficient to be felt, and near 100 trigger precise harm.
Stretching roughly 40,000 km and as much as 500 km in width, the Ring of Fireplace wraps round a lot of the Pacific. Its fashionable construction has developed over hundreds of thousands of years as subduction zones shifted and expanded starting alongside the coasts of the Americas and East Asia round 115 million years in the past, later growing throughout Indonesia and New Guinea, and finally forming close to New Zealand about 35 million years in the past.
(With Inputs From ANI)