M6.9 Earthquake Near 197 km WNW of Port-Olry, Vanuatu Carries Provider Tsunami Flag

USGS Week reports M6.9 near 197 km WNW of Port-Olry, Vanuatu, with a 10.0 km catalog depth and 2 felt reports.

Published 2026-10-24T03:03:46.767Z · Updated 2026-10-24T03:53:46.802Z

The event began at Sat, 24 Oct 2026 02:31:28 GMT. USGS Week reports magnitude 6.9, 10.0 km catalog depth, and coordinates -14.056, 165.546.

The catalog location label is 197 km WNW of Port-Olry, Vanuatu; no separate nearest-city field was supplied with this solution. By catalog depth, this is a shallow event. The magnitude-derived energy estimate is 1.41e+15 joules, or about 337,605 tons of TNT equivalent; that calculation describes source energy, not local damage.

2 public felt reports are attached to the current catalog entry. Other attached observation fields include catalog significance score 733. 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 carries a tsunami-related flag. That field is not itself a warning; readers should check the issuing tsunami warning center and local officials. Magnitude, depth, and location can change as monitoring networks add observations and review the solution.