M5.2 Earthquake Recorded Near 152 km W of Gorontalo, Indonesia
Updated: USGS Week downgraded this solution from M5.3 to M5.2. USGS Week reports M5.2 near 152 km W of Gorontalo, Indonesia, with a 111.3 km catalog depth.
Update: the reporting agency changed this event's magnitude from M5.3 to M5.2. The current value is shown throughout this brief; the earlier value is retained here as revision history.
The event began at Sun, 11 Oct 2026 21:34:53 GMT. USGS Week reports magnitude 5.2, 111.3 km catalog depth, and coordinates 0.523, 121.697.
The catalog location label is 152 km W of Gorontalo, Indonesia; no separate nearest-city field was supplied with this solution. By catalog depth, this is an intermediate-depth event. The magnitude-derived energy estimate is 3.98e+12 joules, or about 951 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 416. 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.
At a glance
- Magnitude revised: M5.3 to M5.2
- Magnitude 5.2
- 111.3 km catalog depth
- 3.98e+12 J magnitude-derived energy estimate
- Origin: Sun, 11 Oct 2026 21:34:53 GMT
- No felt-report count supplied
- USGS Week monitoring record