M5.3 Earthquake Recorded Near PERU-ECUADOR BORDER REGION

Updated: EMSC Global downgraded this solution from M5.5 to M5.3. EMSC Global reports M5.3 near PERU-ECUADOR BORDER REGION, with a 101.0 km catalog depth.

Published 2026-09-19T07:20:51.595Z · Updated 2026-09-19T07:22:51.616Z

Update: the reporting agency changed this event's magnitude from M5.5 to M5.3. The current value is shown throughout this brief; the earlier value is retained here as revision history.

The event began at Sat, 19 Sep 2026 07:12:37 GMT. EMSC Global reports magnitude 5.3, 101.0 km catalog depth, and coordinates -3.663, -77.477.

The catalog location label is PERU-ECUADOR BORDER REGION; 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.