M5.3 Earthquake Recorded Near ROTA REGION, N. MARIANA ISLANDS

EMSC Global reports M5.3 near ROTA REGION, N. MARIANA ISLANDS, with a 100.0 km catalog depth.

Published 2026-09-16T18:24:35.993Z · Updated 2026-09-16T19:30:36.187Z

Update: the reporting agency revised this event's catalog depth from 103.0 km to 100.0 km.

The event began at Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:06:38 GMT. EMSC Global reports magnitude 5.3, 100.0 km catalog depth, and coordinates 14.230, 145.640.

The catalog location label is ROTA REGION, N. MARIANA ISLANDS; no separate nearest-city field was supplied with this solution. By catalog depth, this is an intermediate-depth event. The magnitude-derived energy estimate is 5.62e+12 joules, or about 1,344 tons of TNT equivalent; that calculation describes source energy, not local damage.

The current catalog entry does not include a public felt-report count. No separate intensity or catalog-significance detail is available from this provider record. No official casualty or damage statement is attached to the normalized event evidence.

EMSC Global has not supplied a review status in the normalized record. No station-count, phase-count, residual, gap, or uncertainty fields were supplied in the normalized record. No alternate network solution is attached to this record.

The provider record does not carry a tsunami flag at publication time. Magnitude, depth, and location can change as monitoring networks add observations and review the solution.