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M5.4 Shallow Earthquake Recorded Near VANUATU

EMSC Global reports M5.4 near VANUATU, with a 35.0 km catalog depth.

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News card for M5.4 Shallow Earthquake Recorded Near VANUATU

The event began at Sun, 25 Oct 2026 08:41:03 GMT. EMSC Global reports magnitude 5.4, 35.0 km catalog depth, and coordinates -13.763, 165.679.

The catalog location label is VANUATU; 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.

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EMSC event record: VANUATU — EMSC GlobalGreen earthquake (Magnitude 6.1M, Depth:116km) in Vanuatu 25/10/2026 02:24 UTC, 110 thousand in MMI IV. — GDACSGreen earthquake (Magnitude 5.9M, Depth:10km) in Vanuatu 24/10/2026 08:56 UTC, Few people affected in MMI III. — GDACSGreen earthquake (Magnitude 5.5M, Depth:194.632km) in Vanuatu 24/10/2026 06:43 UTC, 60 thousand in MMI III. — GDACSGreen earthquake (Magnitude 5.8M, Depth:10km) in Vanuatu 24/10/2026 05:23 UTC, 2 thousand in MMI>=III. — GDACS
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