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M5.6 Shallow Earthquake Recorded Near Kamchatka and Commander Islands, Russia

KAGSR Russia reports M5.6 near Kamchatka and Commander Islands, Russia, with a 34.7 km catalog depth.

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News card for M5.6 Shallow Earthquake Recorded Near Kamchatka and Commander Islands, Russia

The event began at Sat, 24 Oct 2026 20:34:59 GMT. KAGSR Russia reports magnitude 5.6, 34.7 km catalog depth, and coordinates 52.053, 159.378.

The catalog location label is Kamchatka and Commander Islands, Russia; no separate nearest-city field was supplied with this solution. By catalog depth, this is a shallow event. The magnitude-derived energy estimate is 1.58e+13 joules, or about 3,788 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 KAGSR Russia catalog currently marks the solution as official. 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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KAGSR event record: Kamchatka and Commander Islands, Russia — KAGSR RussiaGreen earthquake (Magnitude 6.5M, Depth:492.376km) in Bonin Islands, Japan Region 25/10/2026 02:09 UTC, No people affected in 100km. — GDACSGreen earthquake (Magnitude 5.8M, Depth:10km) in Vanuatu Islands 24/10/2026 04:12 UTC, [unknown]. — GDACSGreen earthquake (Magnitude 5.7M, Depth:10km) in Vanuatu Islands 24/10/2026 04:05 UTC, [unknown]. — GDACS
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