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M5.9 Shallow Earthquake Recorded Near 68 km BaratDaya CALANG-ACEHJAYA

BMKG Indonesia reports M5.9 near 68 km BaratDaya CALANG-ACEHJAYA, with a 26.0 km catalog depth.

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News card for M5.9 Shallow Earthquake Recorded Near 68 km BaratDaya CALANG-ACEHJAYA

The event began at Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:37:31 GMT. BMKG Indonesia reports magnitude 5.9, 26.0 km catalog depth, and coordinates 4.560, 94.970.

The catalog location label is 68 km BaratDaya CALANG-ACEHJAYA; no separate nearest-city field was supplied with this solution. By catalog depth, this is a shallow event. The magnitude-derived energy estimate is 4.47e+13 joules, or about 10,676 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.

BMKG Indonesia 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.

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BMKG event record: 68 km BaratDaya CALANG-ACEHJAYA — BMKG Indonesia
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