M5.0 Shallow Earthquake Recorded Near 179 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia

USGS Week reports M5.0 near 179 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, Russia, with a 10.0 km catalog depth.

Published 2026-10-02T19:42:12.354Z

The event began at Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:25:20 GMT. USGS Week reports magnitude 5.0, 10.0 km catalog depth, and coordinates 51.578, 159.831.

The catalog location label is 179 km SSE of Vilyuchinsk, 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 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. Other attached observation fields include catalog significance score 385. 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. 1 alternate network solution is retained for comparison.

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.