M5.3 Shallow Earthquake Recorded Near 25 km east of New Plymouth
GeoNet New Zealand reports M5.3 near 25 km east of New Plymouth, with a 10.5 km catalog depth.
Update: the reporting agency revised this event's catalog depth from 10.1 km to 10.5 km.
The event began at Fri, 02 Oct 2026 13:57:17 GMT. GeoNet New Zealand reports magnitude 5.3, 10.5 km catalog depth, and coordinates -39.112, 174.380.
The catalog location label is 25 km east of New Plymouth; no separate nearest-city field was supplied with this solution. By catalog depth, this is a shallow event. The magnitude-derived energy estimate is 6.33e+12 joules, or about 1,512 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 best. 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 5.3
- 10.5 km catalog depth
- 6.33e+12 J magnitude-derived energy estimate
- Origin: Fri, 02 Oct 2026 13:57:17 GMT
- No felt-report count supplied
- GeoNet New Zealand monitoring record