M5.6 Shallow Earthquake Recorded Near TAIWAN REGION
EMSC Global reports M5.6 near TAIWAN REGION, with a 10.0 km catalog depth.
The event began at Wed, 30 Sep 2026 05:00:26 GMT. EMSC Global reports magnitude 5.6, 10.0 km catalog depth, and coordinates 23.854, 122.871.
The catalog location label is TAIWAN REGION; no separate nearest-city field was supplied with this solution. By catalog depth, this is a shallow event. The magnitude-derived energy estimate is 1.58e+13 joules, or about 3,788 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.
At a glance
- Magnitude 5.6
- 10.0 km catalog depth
- 1.58e+13 J magnitude-derived energy estimate
- Origin: Wed, 30 Sep 2026 05:00:26 GMT
- No felt-report count supplied
- EMSC Global monitoring record