M5.1 Earthquake Recorded Near OFF EAST COAST OF KAMCHATKA

EMSC Global reports M5.1 near OFF EAST COAST OF KAMCHATKA, with a 60.0 km catalog depth.

Published 2026-10-07T00:50:51.110Z · Updated 2026-10-07T01:32:51.123Z

Update: the reporting agency revised this event's catalog depth from 71.0 km to 60.0 km.

The event began at Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:30:06 GMT. EMSC Global reports magnitude 5.1, 60.0 km catalog depth, and coordinates 52.880, 159.770.

The catalog location label is OFF EAST COAST OF KAMCHATKA; 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 2.82e+12 joules, or about 674 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.