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M5.6 Earthquake Near 78 km NNE of Tobelo, Indonesia Draws 1 Felt Reports

USGS Week reports M5.6 near 78 km NNE of Tobelo, Indonesia, with a 162.2 km catalog depth and 1 felt reports.

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News card for M5.6 Earthquake Near 78 km NNE of Tobelo, Indonesia Draws 1 Felt Reports

The event began at Mon, 14 Sep 2026 10:58:03 GMT. USGS Week reports magnitude 5.6, 162.2 km catalog depth, and coordinates 2.422, 128.170.

The catalog location label is 78 km NNE of Tobelo, 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 1.58e+13 joules, or about 3,788 tons of TNT equivalent; that calculation describes source energy, not local damage.

1 public felt report is attached to the current catalog entry. Other attached observation fields include catalog significance score 483. 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: 78 km NNE of Tobelo, Indonesia — USGS WeekGreen earthquake (Magnitude 5.6M, Depth:162.179km) in Indonesia 14/09/2026 10:58 UTC, 330 thousand in MMI III. — GDACSGreen earthquake (Magnitude 5.5M, Depth:10km) in South Of Java, Indonesia 14/09/2026 09:27 UTC, [unknown]. — GDACSGreen earthquake (Magnitude 6.5M, Depth:372km) in Indonesia 11/09/2026 21:23 UTC, 20 thousand in 100km. — GDACSGreen earthquake (Magnitude 5.9M, Depth:111.763km) in Indonesia 11/09/2026 11:56 UTC, 10 thousand in MMI IV. — GDACS
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