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M5.5 Shallow Earthquake Recorded Near 61 km ENE of Tadine, New Caledonia

USGS Week reports M5.5 near 61 km ENE of Tadine, New Caledonia, with a 10.0 km catalog depth.

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News card for M5.5 Shallow Earthquake Recorded Near 61 km ENE of Tadine, New Caledonia

The event began at Fri, 25 Sep 2026 23:39:41 GMT. USGS Week reports magnitude 5.5, 10.0 km catalog depth, and coordinates -21.375, 168.445.

The catalog location label is 61 km ENE of Tadine, New Caledonia; no separate nearest-city field was supplied with this solution. By catalog depth, this is a shallow event. The magnitude-derived energy estimate is 1.12e+13 joules, or about 2,682 tons of TNT equivalent; that calculation describes source energy, not local damage.

The current catalog entry does not include a public felt-report count. Other attached observation fields include catalog significance score 465. No official casualty or damage statement is attached to the normalized event evidence.

The USGS Week catalog currently marks the solution as reviewed. 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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US event record: 61 km ENE of Tadine, New Caledonia — USGS WeekGreen earthquake (Magnitude 5.5M, Depth:10km) in New Caledonia 25/09/2026 23:39 UTC, 2 thousand in MMI IV. — GDACS
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