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M5.6 Shallow Earthquake Recorded Near Reykjanes Ridge [Sea]

INGV Italy reports M5.6 near Reykjanes Ridge [Sea], with a 5.5 km catalog depth.

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News card for M5.6 Shallow Earthquake Recorded Near Reykjanes Ridge [Sea]

The event began at Wed, 28 Oct 2026 11:37:52 GMT. INGV Italy reports magnitude 5.6, 5.5 km catalog depth, and coordinates 58.240, -32.100.

The catalog location label is Reykjanes Ridge [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 1.58e+13 joules, or about 3,788 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. Other agency solutions retained for this same origin are GEOFON GFZ M5.5. 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.

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SURVEY-INGV-A event record: Reykjanes Ridge [Sea] — INGV ItalyGreen earthquake (Magnitude 5.5M, Depth:10km) in Reykjanes Ridge 28/10/2026 11:37 UTC, [unknown]. — GDACS
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