M5.1 Earthquake Recorded Near Mindanao, Philippines

GEOFON GFZ reports M5.1 near Mindanao, Philippines, with a 41.5 km catalog depth.

Published 2026-10-16T09:32:34.648Z · Updated 2026-10-16T10:38:34.933Z

Update: the reporting agency revised this event's catalog depth from 43.0 km to 41.5 km.

The event began at Fri, 16 Oct 2026 09:13:41 GMT. GEOFON GFZ reports magnitude 5.1, 41.5 km catalog depth, and coordinates 7.947, 126.960.

The catalog location label is Mindanao, Philippines; 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 3.13e+12 joules, or about 747 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.