M5.0 Shallow Earthquake Recorded Near Vanuatu Islands

GEOFON GFZ reports M5.0 near Vanuatu Islands, with a 10.0 km catalog depth.

Published 2026-10-26T05:11:58.510Z

The event began at Mon, 26 Oct 2026 04:53:36 GMT. GEOFON GFZ reports magnitude 5.0, 10.0 km catalog depth, and coordinates -14.088, 165.837.

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 2.07e+12 joules, or about 494 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.