A very strong magnitude 6.5 earthquake hit 64 km (40 mi) away from Madang, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, in the evening of Monday, Dec 22, 2025 at 8.31 pm local time (Pacific/Port Moresby GMT +10). The quake had a moderate depth of 110 km (68 mi) and was felt over a large region.
A magnitude 6.5 earthquake recently struck land in Papua New Guinea. The event occurred at a depth of approximately 110 kilometers, resulting in no tsunami warnings. The speaker attributes the seismic activity to a combination of complex plate tectonics, magma movement beneath nearby active volcanoes, and the influence of a concurrent G3 geomagnetic storm.
James Kaufman, World News Report today.
Ladies and gentlemen,
we've had a 6.5 magnitude earthquake in Papua New Guinea.
I believe that to be part of the eighth continent rising out
of the sea, Zealandia, which I will show you a picture of.
And this is on a plate tectonic boundary,
also on plates that aren't connected properly,
and also right under several erupting and awakening volcanoes.
I'm sure this has to do as much with plate tectonics
as it does magma movement under these volcanoes.
Now, ladies and gentlemen,
we are under a geomagnetic storm and have been since yesterday.
we usually see this type of action after we have a geomagnetic storm
and these plates get quote-unquote charged.
So I didn't find the perfect image,
but this is the 8th continent rising, Zealandia.
And Papua New Guinea is right in this area here.
And New Zealand is the high end
or highest part of the continent along with New Caledonia.
Now, New Zealand is currently trying to make a shelf grab,
not a land grab, a shelf grab on everything that's red,
calling it their continental shelf.
Well, they're not a continent,
so I don't know if they really get a shelf.
They've actually, quote-unquote, applied with the United Nations
for all this area, which is filled with natural resources.
You can see that they think that once the continent has risen,
there will be a very small strait between Australia
and Zealandia,
is what we call it, Zealandia, kind of like part of New Zealand.
Now, this 6.5 earthquake, per the USGS, happened on land,
so there is no tsunami warning.
We'll zoom in and take a look.
The plates in red are actual plates that they verified.
The plates in blue are plates that are semi-formed.
And anything in black here,
you can see that there's a lot of black in this area especially.
Well, these are plates that they anticipate, anticipate the future.
You can see this happened on land, Papua New Guinea.
We have a Manam volcano here.
we have a Langila volcano here a little bit further away
a one volcano so this is a highly volcanic
area you can see the mess of plate boundaries
and look this is the Zealandia some say Papua New Guinea
is included, many say it's not, but I think
y'all can see that strait coming through here and it
Looks like it would be another landmass included in this continent,
depending on how much it rises, right?
Now, we'll show you that continent there,
try and get a better feel for it.
Zealandia
So, is Papua New Guinea part of it?
Well, I'll let you all decide that.
Let's get some detailed information here.
A magnitude 6.5 earthquake.
USGS is our source.
and let's see this occurred at 8:31 Port Moresby
time I was looking for a UTC time this was seven
hours ago we've been in and out of geomagnetic storms since yesterday
and that charged the
plates up we also have raspberry shake coming
in at 6.4, 101 kilometers USGS came in at a 110
kilometers of depth. And the French, always on the,
well, weak side, came in at 6.1 with a default
depth, a default depth of 10 kilometers.
Let's get some detailed information about this major
earthquake. And I will correct myself,
they're calling it a very strong earthquake, not a major
earthquake a 6.5 and that's roughly seven hours ago
so about 6 a.m. this morning central time here
in the U.S. the geomagnetic storm
is happening just like I thought that it may we can see that
well the estimated planetary index 7 to 10 uh 10
to 1, 1 to 3 you can see all that charging
happening yesterday and today three to six
and then six to nine and we're waiting on that next
bar to drop about 12 05 12 10 central time you can see looking
at the college index we've been
in G3 geomagnetic storm territory
this is an elevated sensor or group of sensors i.e elevated
in height. The rest of them show similar geomagnetic disturbances
and storms, and they're
at different places around the U.S. A magnitude 6.4 earthquake,
Papua New Guinea. You can see it
was on land, as I indicated, thus no tsunami warning or watch,
and this happened, well, about
about 6 or 7 this morning Central Time here in the U.S.
All right, running through some earthquake details.
Main reporting source, USGS 69 reports.
Not very many to be on land in Papua New Guinea right there.
The closest, nearest volcano, Crater Mountain,
obviously not going off.
We didn't see that.
We have light rain and 5.3 atomic bombs worth
of energy released with a 6.5 magnitude earthquake.
Wow.
At a depth of around 110 kilometers.
So this is a combination of plate tectonics
and magma movement under all these volcanoes in the area.
All right.
Here's our shake map for this quake.
these are the reports here and the intensity
is well here's your legend up here you can see that
it was felt pretty intensely around the epicenter
and there were no reports on any of the outlying
islands here so i don't know how densely populated
that particular area is i know it's a volcanic
range so probably not so much but we have
a 6.5 earthquake and well we have like we said 67
shake reports on this map here
by comparing earthquake data from different reporting
agencies, starting out with the USGS, 110 kilometers, 6.5 Raspberry Shake
is up next with a 6.4
at 101 kilometers.
Germany came in at 6.4, 102 kilometers.
The French, 6.1 plus or minus 0.17,
had a default depth, i.e. the asterisk,
often means that the depth of the quake
cannot be determined with sufficient accuracy.
Next, we have a 6.5 coming out of the Indonesian government,
107 kilometers.
A pretty good agreement to the depth of this.
we have the Europeans coming in at 6.5, 92 kilometers
of depth, we have the international
Research Institute for Seismology coming
at 6.5, 110 kilometers in depth, i think they just follow
the USGS, and we have the Australians coming
in at a 6.5 as well, i always look to the Australians
for my information, especially right there
in Papua New Guinea, 94 kilometers of depth, and last
but not least, the Italians coming in at 6.4
the gods number, 111 kilometers in depth, all right so
in summary, we have a magnitude 6.5, very strong
earthquake, Papua New Guinea came in as a six on
the DYFI, six on the shake map, USGS thought it
was about 110 kilometers in depth, and it is in an area
where we have a lot of plate tectonic, well, confusion,
and we have at least three active volcanoes
with magma moving all under this in a magma chamber.
With that said, God bless.
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