M5.7 Shallow Earthquake Recorded Near East of Kuril Islands, Russia [Sea: Russia]

INGV Italy reports M5.7 near East of Kuril Islands, Russia [Sea: Russia], with a 14.8 km catalog depth.

Published 2026-09-05T03:33:27.964Z

The event began at Fri, 04 Sep 2026 23:52:29 GMT. INGV Italy reports magnitude 5.7, 14.8 km catalog depth, and coordinates 44.880, 150.078.

The catalog location label is East of Kuril Islands, 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 2.24e+13 joules, or about 5,351 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.