M5.7 Shallow Earthquake Recorded Near Vanuatu Islands

Updated: GEOFON GFZ downgraded this solution from M6.0 to M5.7. GEOFON GFZ reports M5.7 near Vanuatu Islands, with a 10.0 km catalog depth.

Published 2026-09-05T17:24:26.072Z · Updated 2026-09-05T17:28:26.068Z

Update: the reporting agency changed this event's magnitude from M6.0 to M5.7. The current value is shown throughout this brief; the earlier value is retained here as revision history.

The event began at Sat, 05 Sep 2026 17:02:11 GMT. GEOFON GFZ reports magnitude 5.7, 10.0 km catalog depth, and coordinates -19.709, 170.247.

The catalog location label is Vanuatu Islands; no separate nearest-city field was supplied with this solution. By catalog depth, this is a shallow event. The magnitude-derived energy estimate is 1.88e+13 joules, or about 4,502 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.

GEOFON GFZ 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.