M5.2 Shallow Earthquake Recorded Near Off East Coast of Kamchatka

Updated: GEOFON GFZ downgraded this solution from M5.3 to M5.2. GEOFON GFZ reports M5.2 near Off East Coast of Kamchatka, with a 10.0 km catalog depth.

Published 2026-10-02T21:12:13.093Z · Updated 2026-10-02T21:20:55.163Z

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

The event began at Fri, 02 Oct 2026 20:54:14 GMT. GEOFON GFZ reports magnitude 5.2, 10.0 km catalog depth, and coordinates 51.852, 159.271.

The catalog location label is Off East Coast of Kamchatka; no separate nearest-city field was supplied with this solution. By catalog depth, this is a shallow event. The magnitude-derived energy estimate is 4.27e+12 joules, or about 1,020 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.