M5.0 Shallow Earthquake Recorded Near Vanuatu Islands
GEOFON GFZ reports M5.0 near Vanuatu Islands, with a 10.0 km catalog depth.
The event began at Sun, 13 Sep 2026 19:41:42 GMT. GEOFON GFZ reports magnitude 5.0, 10.0 km catalog depth, and coordinates -19.968, 169.031.
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 2.21e+12 joules, or about 529 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.
At a glance
- Magnitude 5.0
- 10.0 km catalog depth
- 2.21e+12 J magnitude-derived energy estimate
- Origin: Sun, 13 Sep 2026 19:41:42 GMT
- No felt-report count supplied
- GEOFON GFZ monitoring record