M5.3 Earthquake Near 44 km ESE of Miyazaki, Japan Draws 2 Felt Reports
USGS Week reports M5.3 near 44 km ESE of Miyazaki, Japan, with a 10.0 km catalog depth and 2 felt reports.
The event began at Sat, 24 Oct 2026 23:59:36 GMT. USGS Week reports magnitude 5.3, 10.0 km catalog depth, and coordinates 31.823, 131.873.
The catalog location label is 44 km ESE of Miyazaki, Japan; no separate nearest-city field was supplied with this solution. By catalog depth, this is a shallow event. The magnitude-derived energy estimate is 5.62e+12 joules, or about 1,344 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 433. 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 5.3
- 10.0 km catalog depth
- 5.62e+12 J magnitude-derived energy estimate
- Origin: Sat, 24 Oct 2026 23:59:36 GMT
- 2 attached felt reports
- USGS Week monitoring record