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M5.8 Shallow Earthquake Recorded Near 182 km NW of Port-Olry, Vanuatu

USGS Week reports M5.8 near 182 km NW of Port-Olry, Vanuatu, with a 10.0 km catalog depth.

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News card for M5.8 Shallow Earthquake Recorded Near 182 km NW of Port-Olry, Vanuatu

The event began at Sat, 24 Oct 2026 05:23:40 GMT. USGS Week reports magnitude 5.8, 10.0 km catalog depth, and coordinates -14.083, 165.698.

The catalog location label is 182 km NW 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 3.16e+13 joules, or about 7,558 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 518. 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. 2 alternate network solutions are 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.

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US event record: 182 km NW of Port-Olry, Vanuatu — USGS WeekGreen earthquake (Magnitude 5.8M, Depth:10km) in Vanuatu Islands 24/10/2026 04:12 UTC, [unknown]. — GDACSGreen earthquake (Magnitude 5.7M, Depth:10km) in Vanuatu Islands 24/10/2026 04:05 UTC, [unknown]. — GDACSGreen earthquake (Magnitude 6.3M, Depth:10km) in Vanuatu 24/10/2026 02:35 UTC, 4 thousand in MMI IV. — GDACSGreen earthquake (Magnitude 6.9M, Depth:10km) in Vanuatu 24/10/2026 02:31 UTC, 40 thousand in MMI IV. — GDACS
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