M5.2 Earthquake Recorded Near Loyalty Islands

GEOFON GFZ reports M5.2 near Loyalty Islands, with a 37.3 km catalog depth.

Published 2026-09-28T06:41:46.153Z · Updated 2026-09-28T06:47:46.144Z

Update: the reporting agency revised this event's catalog depth from 10.0 km to 37.3 km.

The event began at Mon, 28 Sep 2026 05:28:14 GMT. GEOFON GFZ reports magnitude 5.2, 37.3 km catalog depth, and coordinates -21.116, 168.439.

The catalog location label is Loyalty Islands; no separate nearest-city field was supplied with this solution. By catalog depth, this is an intermediate-depth event. The magnitude-derived energy estimate is 3.47e+12 joules, or about 829 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.