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M5.5 Earthquake Recorded Near Papua New Guinea [Sea]

INGV Italy reports M5.5 near Papua New Guinea [Sea], with a 125.8 km catalog depth.

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News card for M5.5 Earthquake Recorded Near Papua New Guinea [Sea]

The event began at Sat, 05 Sep 2026 14:12:09 GMT. INGV Italy reports magnitude 5.5, 125.8 km catalog depth, and coordinates -4.521, 153.710.

The catalog location label is Papua New Guinea [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 1.12e+13 joules, or about 2,682 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. 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.

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SURVEY-INGV-A event record: Papua New Guinea [Sea] — INGV ItalyGreen earthquake (Magnitude 5.5M, Depth:114.364km) in Papua New Guinea 05/09/2026 14:12 UTC, 290 thousand in MMI III. — GDACS
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