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M5.1 Earthquake Recorded Near 210 km north-west of Karamea

GeoNet New Zealand reports M5.1 near 210 km north-west of Karamea, with a 750.0 km catalog depth.

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News card for M5.1 Earthquake Recorded Near 210 km north-west of Karamea

The event began at Fri, 11 Sep 2026 21:32:53 GMT. GeoNet New Zealand reports magnitude 5.1, 750.0 km catalog depth, and coordinates -40.203, 170.039.

The catalog location label is 210 km north-west of Karamea; no separate nearest-city field was supplied with this solution. By catalog depth, this is a deep event. The magnitude-derived energy estimate is 2.70e+12 joules, or about 646 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.

The GeoNet New Zealand catalog currently marks the solution as deleted. 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.

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GEONET event record: 210 km north-west of Karamea — GeoNet New Zealand
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