Strong M6.0 Earthquake Recorded Near Off east coast of Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia [Sea: Russia]

INGV Italy reports M6.0 near Off east coast of Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia [Sea: Russia], with a 14.8 km catalog depth.

Published 2026-10-02T17:14:11.511Z

The event began at Fri, 02 Oct 2026 16:34:41 GMT. INGV Italy reports magnitude 6.0, 14.8 km catalog depth, and coordinates 51.602, 159.816.

The catalog location label is Off east coast of Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia [Sea: Russia]; no separate nearest-city field was supplied with this solution. By catalog depth, this is a shallow event. The magnitude-derived energy estimate is 6.31e+13 joules, or about 15,080 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.

INGV Italy 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.