M5.4 Shallow Earthquake Recorded Near Off East Coast of Kamchatka

GEOFON GFZ reports M5.4 near Off East Coast of Kamchatka, with a 10.0 km catalog depth.

Published 2026-10-03T20:30:28.515Z

The event began at Sat, 03 Oct 2026 20:00:47 GMT. GEOFON GFZ reports magnitude 5.4, 10.0 km catalog depth, and coordinates 51.982, 159.286.

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 7.94e+12 joules, or about 1,898 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.