M5.1 Shallow Earthquake Recorded Near Flores Sea

Updated: GEOFON GFZ upgraded this solution from M5.0 to M5.1. GEOFON GFZ reports M5.1 near Flores Sea, with a 10.0 km catalog depth.

Published 2026-10-08T05:06:58.255Z · Updated 2026-10-08T06:03:18.511Z

Update: the reporting agency changed this event's magnitude from M5.0 to M5.1. The current value is shown throughout this brief; the earlier value is retained here as revision history.

The event began at Thu, 08 Oct 2026 04:49:01 GMT. GEOFON GFZ reports magnitude 5.1, 10.0 km catalog depth, and coordinates -7.812, 120.350.

The catalog location label is Flores Sea; no separate nearest-city field was supplied with this solution. By catalog depth, this is a shallow event. The magnitude-derived energy estimate is 2.63e+12 joules, or about 629 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.