M5.3 Earthquake Recorded Near Vanuatu Islands
GEOFON GFZ reports M5.3 near Vanuatu Islands, with a 56.0 km catalog depth.
The event began at Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:12:45 GMT. GEOFON GFZ reports magnitude 5.3, 56.0 km catalog depth, and coordinates -14.065, 165.623.
The catalog location label is Vanuatu 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 5.62e+12 joules, or about 1,344 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. Other agency solutions retained for this same origin are EMSC Global M5.4; USGS Week M5.4. These are alternate reported solutions, not additional earthquakes.
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.
At a glance
- Magnitude 5.3
- 56.0 km catalog depth
- 5.62e+12 J magnitude-derived energy estimate
- Origin: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:12:45 GMT
- No felt-report count supplied
- Alternate solution: EMSC Global M5.4
- Alternate solution: USGS Week M5.4
- GEOFON GFZ monitoring record