M5.9 Shallow Earthquake Recorded Near west of Macquarie Island
USGS Week reports M5.9 near west of Macquarie Island, with a 10.0 km catalog depth.
The event began at Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:49:41 GMT. USGS Week reports magnitude 5.9, 10.0 km catalog depth, and coordinates -60.976, 154.462.
The catalog location label is west of Macquarie Island; no separate nearest-city field was supplied with this solution. By catalog depth, this is a shallow event. The magnitude-derived energy estimate is 4.47e+13 joules, or about 10,676 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 536. 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.
At a glance
- Magnitude 5.9
- 10.0 km catalog depth
- 4.47e+13 J magnitude-derived energy estimate
- Origin: Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:49:41 GMT
- No felt-report count supplied
- USGS Week monitoring record