M5.2 Shallow Earthquake Recorded Near MOLUCCA SEA

EMSC Global reports M5.2 near MOLUCCA SEA, with a 10.0 km catalog depth.

Published 2026-09-17T06:32:38.662Z · Updated 2026-09-17T06:36:38.649Z

Update: the reporting agency revised this event's catalog depth from 45.0 km to 10.0 km.

The event began at Thu, 17 Sep 2026 06:20:49 GMT. EMSC Global reports magnitude 5.2, 10.0 km catalog depth, and coordinates 1.296, 126.493.

The catalog location label is MOLUCCA SEA; no separate nearest-city field was supplied with this solution. By catalog depth, this is a shallow event. The magnitude-derived energy estimate is 3.98e+12 joules, or about 951 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.