M5.9 Shallow Earthquake Recorded Near West of Macquarie Island [Sea]
INGV Italy reports M5.9 near West of Macquarie Island [Sea], with a 10.0 km catalog depth.
The event began at Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:49:41 GMT. INGV Italy reports magnitude 5.9, 10.0 km catalog depth, and coordinates -60.976, 154.462.
The catalog location label is West of Macquarie Island [Sea]; no separate nearest-city field was supplied with this solution. By catalog depth, this is a shallow event. The magnitude-derived energy estimate is 4.47e+13 joules, or about 10,676 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. 1 alternate network solution is 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 5.9
- 10.0 km catalog depth
- 4.47e+13 J magnitude-derived energy estimate
- Origin: Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:49:41 GMT
- No felt-report count supplied
- INGV Italy monitoring record