M5.0 Shallow Earthquake Recorded Near LOYALTY ISLANDS

EMSC Global reports M5.0 near LOYALTY ISLANDS, with a 16.0 km catalog depth.

Published 2026-09-29T12:31:52.603Z

The event began at Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:42:59 GMT. EMSC Global reports magnitude 5.0, 16.0 km catalog depth, and coordinates -21.245, 168.516.

The catalog location label is LOYALTY ISLANDS; no separate nearest-city field was supplied with this solution. By catalog depth, this is a shallow event. The magnitude-derived energy estimate is 2.00e+12 joules, or about 477 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.