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.
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.
At a glance
- Magnitude 5.5
- 125.8 km catalog depth
- 1.12e+13 J magnitude-derived energy estimate
- Origin: Sat, 05 Sep 2026 14:12:09 GMT
- No felt-report count supplied
- INGV Italy monitoring record