M5.3 Shallow Earthquake Recorded Near Reykjanes Ridge

Updated: GEOFON GFZ upgraded this solution from M5.2 to M5.3. GEOFON GFZ reports M5.3 near Reykjanes Ridge, with a 10.0 km catalog depth.

Published 2026-09-19T20:52:55.871Z · Updated 2026-09-19T21:06:55.949Z

Update: the reporting agency changed this event's magnitude from M5.2 to M5.3. The current value is shown throughout this brief; the earlier value is retained here as revision history.

The event began at Sat, 19 Sep 2026 20:24:44 GMT. GEOFON GFZ reports magnitude 5.3, 10.0 km catalog depth, and coordinates 57.234, -33.534.

The catalog location label is Reykjanes Ridge; no separate nearest-city field was supplied with this solution. By catalog depth, this is a shallow event. The magnitude-derived energy estimate is 5.82e+12 joules, or about 1,391 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.