M5.9 Shallow Earthquake Recorded Near Vanuatu Islands [Sea: Vanuatu]

INGV Italy reports M5.9 near Vanuatu Islands [Sea: Vanuatu], with a 8.6 km catalog depth.

Published 2026-10-28T04:06:15.253Z

The event began at Wed, 28 Oct 2026 01:39:12 GMT. INGV Italy reports magnitude 5.9, 8.6 km catalog depth, and coordinates -13.873, 165.480.

The catalog location label is Vanuatu Islands [Sea: Vanuatu]; no separate nearest-city field was supplied with this solution. By catalog depth, this is a shallow event. The magnitude-derived energy estimate is 4.47e+13 joules, or about 10,676 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.