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M5.7 Earthquake Recorded Near South Georgia & the South Sandwich Is. [Sea]

INGV Italy reports M5.7 near South Georgia & the South Sandwich Is. [Sea], with a 89.8 km catalog depth.

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News card for M5.7 Earthquake Recorded Near South Georgia & the South Sandwich Is. [Sea]

The event began at Thu, 29 Oct 2026 05:07:00 GMT. INGV Italy reports magnitude 5.7, 89.8 km catalog depth, and coordinates -60.110, -27.975.

The catalog location label is South Georgia & the South Sandwich Is. [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 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.

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SURVEY-INGV-A event record: South Georgia & the South Sandwich Is. [Sea] — INGV Italy
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