M5.0 Shallow Earthquake Recorded Near OCEANO PACIFICO, Argentina

INPRES Argentina reports M5.0 near OCEANO PACIFICO, Argentina, with a 10.0 km catalog depth.

Published 2026-09-11T07:20:53.462Z

The event began at Fri, 11 Sep 2026 04:42:25 GMT. The provider also lists local time as 11/09 01:42 ART (UTC-3). INPRES Argentina reports magnitude 5.0, 10.0 km catalog depth, and coordinates -32.660, -72.030.

The catalog location label is OCEANO PACIFICO, Argentina; no separate nearest-city field was supplied with this solution. By catalog depth, this is a shallow event. The magnitude-derived energy estimate is 2.00e+12 joules, or about 477 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.

The INPRES Argentina catalog currently marks the solution as automatic. 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 issuing source also supplied this event summary: Official INPRES recent-earthquake record. Catalog: https://www.inpres.gob.ar/sismologia/xultimos The linked event record should be checked for later magnitude, depth, location, and review revisions.