{"id":618943,"date":"2025-12-08T00:02:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T00:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/618943\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T00:02:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T00:02:17","slug":"magnitude-4-0-earthquake-strikes-near-gasteiz-vitoria-araba-alava-basque-country-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/618943\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnitude 4.0 Earthquake Strikes Near Gasteiz \/ Vitoria, Araba \/ \u00c1lava, Basque Country, Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, Dec 7, 2025 23:19 | 43 mins ago | By: EarthquakeMonitor<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"articleImg\" data-jslghtbx=\"\/\/volcanodiscovery.de\/uploads\/pics\/2025\/12\/quakemap-22473299.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/quakemap-22473299.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\nSpain&#8217;s Instituto Geogr\u00e1fico Nacional (IGN) reported a magnitude 4.0 quake in Spain near Gasteiz \/ Vitoria, Araba \/ \u00c1lava, Basque Country, only 8 minutes ago. The earthquake hit after midnight on Monday, December 8th, 2025, at 12:10 am local time at a very shallow depth of 5. km. The exact magnitude, epicenter, and depth of the quake might be revised within the next few hours or minutes as seismologists review data and refine their calculations, or as other agencies issue their report.<br \/>Our monitoring service identified a second report from the citizen-seismograph network of RaspberryShake which listed the quake at magnitude 4.0 as well. A third agency, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC), reported the same quake at magnitude 3.7.<br \/>Based on the preliminary seismic data, the quake was probably felt by many people in the area of the epicenter. It should not have caused significant damage, other than objects falling from shelves, broken windows, etc. <br \/>In Berrosteguieta (pop. 590) located 5 km from the epicenter, and Gasteiz \/ Vitoria (pop. 257,400) 7 km away, the quake should have been felt as light shaking.<br \/>Weak shaking might have been felt in Miranda de Ebro (pop. 39,300) located 23 km from the epicenter, and Arrasate \/ Mondrag\u00f3n (pop. 22,000) 33 km away.<br \/>Other towns or cities near the epicenter where the quake might have been felt as very weak shaking include Durango (pop. 28,200) located 38 km from the epicenter, Basauri (pop. 42,700) 45 km away, Santutxu (pop. 60,000) 47 km away, Bilbao (pop. 347,300) 49 km away, and Barakaldo (pop. 100,400) 54 km away.<\/p>\n<p>If you felt it, report it through our site or app right now!<\/p>\n<p><b>Download and Upgrade the Volcanoes &amp; Earthquakes app<\/b> to get one of the fastest seismic alerts online:<br \/><b><a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.volcanodiscovery.volcanodiscovery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Android<\/a><\/b> | <b><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/volcanoes-earthquakes\/id1449389566\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">IOS<\/a><\/b><br \/><b>Earthquake data:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I felt this quake<\/p>\n<p>Date &amp; time: Dec 7, 2025 11:10 pm (Universal Time) local time (7 Dec 2025 23:10 GMT)<br \/>Magnitude: 3.7<br \/>Depth: 5.00 km<br \/>Epicenter latitude \/ longitude: 42.85\u00b0N \/ 2.79\u00b0W  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ES.png\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\"\/> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.volcanodiscovery.com\/earthquakes\/spain\/basque-country\/araba\/alava.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Araba \/ \u00c1lava<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.volcanodiscovery.com\/earthquakes\/spain\/basque-country.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Basque Country<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.volcanodiscovery.com\/earthquakes\/spain.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spain<\/a>)<br \/>Primary data source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ign.es\/web\/ign\/portal\/ultimos-terremotos\/-\/ultimos-terremotos\/getDetails?evid=es2025xzcjy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">IGN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday, Dec 7, 2025 23:19 | 43 mins ago | By: EarthquakeMonitor Spain&#8217;s Instituto Geogr\u00e1fico Nacional (IGN) reported&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-618943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115681019289066658","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}