M5.7 Earthquake Recorded Near Banda Sea
GEOFON GFZ reports M5.7 near Banda Sea, with a 144.9 km catalog depth.
The event began at Wed, 28 Oct 2026 22:06:47 GMT. GEOFON GFZ reports magnitude 5.7, 144.9 km catalog depth, and coordinates -6.333, 130.403.
The catalog location label is Banda Sea; 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 2.32e+13 joules, or about 5,539 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. 2 alternate network solutions are retained for comparison.
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 5.7
- 144.9 km catalog depth
- 2.32e+13 J magnitude-derived energy estimate
- Origin: Wed, 28 Oct 2026 22:06:47 GMT
- No felt-report count supplied
- GEOFON GFZ monitoring record