M5.4 Shallow Earthquake Recorded Near OFF COAST OF ECUADOR

EMSC Global reports M5.4 near OFF COAST OF ECUADOR, with a 10.0 km catalog depth.

Published 2026-10-15T11:48:28.723Z · Updated 2026-10-15T11:50:28.746Z

Update: the reporting agency revised this event's catalog depth from 35.0 km to 10.0 km.

The event began at Thu, 15 Oct 2026 11:16:46 GMT. EMSC Global reports magnitude 5.4, 10.0 km catalog depth, and coordinates 1.051, -85.182.

The catalog location label is OFF COAST OF ECUADOR; no separate nearest-city field was supplied with this solution. By catalog depth, this is a shallow event. The magnitude-derived energy estimate is 7.94e+12 joules, or about 1,898 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. 1 alternate network solution is retained for comparison.

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.