M5.8 Shallow Earthquake Recorded Near Vanuatu Islands
Updated: GEOFON GFZ upgraded this solution from M5.7 to M5.8. GEOFON GFZ reports M5.8 near Vanuatu Islands, with a 10.0 km catalog depth.
Update: the reporting agency changed this event's magnitude from M5.7 to M5.8. The current value is shown throughout this brief; the earlier value is retained here as revision history.
The event began at Sat, 24 Oct 2026 04:05:37 GMT. GEOFON GFZ reports magnitude 5.8, 10.0 km catalog depth, and coordinates -13.854, 165.604.
The catalog location label is Vanuatu Islands; no separate nearest-city field was supplied with this solution. By catalog depth, this is a shallow event. The magnitude-derived energy estimate is 3.05e+13 joules, or about 7,301 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 M5.7; USGS Week M5.7. 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 revised: M5.7 to M5.8
- Magnitude 5.8
- 10.0 km catalog depth
- 3.05e+13 J magnitude-derived energy estimate
- Origin: Sat, 24 Oct 2026 04:05:37 GMT
- No felt-report count supplied
- Alternate solution: EMSC Global M5.7
- Alternate solution: USGS Week M5.7
- GEOFON GFZ monitoring record