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M5.0 Earthquake Recorded Near Kermadec Islands region

USGS Week reports M5.0 near Kermadec Islands region, with a 585.1 km catalog depth.

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News card for M5.0 Earthquake Recorded Near Kermadec Islands region

The event began at Mon, 07 Sep 2026 02:06:48 GMT. USGS Week reports magnitude 5.0, 585.1 km catalog depth, and coordinates -30.966, 178.544.

The catalog location label is Kermadec Islands region; no separate nearest-city field was supplied with this solution. By catalog depth, this is a deep event. The magnitude-derived energy estimate is 2.00e+12 joules, or about 477 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 385. 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.

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US event record: Kermadec Islands region — USGS WeekGreen earthquake (Magnitude 5.6M, Depth:38.543km) in Solomon Islands 06/09/2026 04:05 UTC, 4 thousand in MMI IV. — GDACS
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