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Strong M6.2 Earthquake Recorded Near Solomon Is. [Land]

INGV Italy reports M6.2 near Solomon Is. [Land], with a 61.7 km catalog depth.

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News card for Strong M6.2 Earthquake Recorded Near Solomon Is. [Land]

The event began at Sun, 11 Oct 2026 14:07:25 GMT. INGV Italy reports magnitude 6.2, 61.7 km catalog depth, and coordinates -7.010, 155.749.

The catalog location label is Solomon Is. [Land]; 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 1.26e+14 joules, or about 30,089 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: Solomon Is. [Land] — INGV ItalyGreen earthquake (Magnitude 5.9M, Depth:10km) in West Of Macquarie Island 09/10/2026 14:49 UTC, [unknown]. — GDACSGreen earthquake (Magnitude 5.5M, Depth:10km) in West Of Macquarie Island 08/10/2026 06:46 UTC, [unknown]. — GDACS
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