M5.5 Shallow Earthquake Recorded Near Loyalty Islands

GEOFON GFZ reports M5.5 near Loyalty Islands, with a 10.0 km catalog depth.

Published 2026-09-26T07:43:34.810Z

The event began at Sat, 26 Sep 2026 07:22:12 GMT. GEOFON GFZ reports magnitude 5.5, 10.0 km catalog depth, and coordinates -21.144, 168.672.

The catalog location label is Loyalty 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 1.24e+13 joules, or about 2,974 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.