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M5.2 Shallow Earthquake Recorded Near 132 km E of Bitung, Indonesia

USGS Week reports M5.2 near 132 km E of Bitung, Indonesia, with a 10.0 km catalog depth.

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News card for M5.2 Shallow Earthquake Recorded Near 132 km E of Bitung, Indonesia

The event began at Thu, 17 Sep 2026 06:20:48 GMT. USGS Week reports magnitude 5.2, 10.0 km catalog depth, and coordinates 1.316, 126.309.

The catalog location label is 132 km E of Bitung, Indonesia; no separate nearest-city field was supplied with this solution. By catalog depth, this is a shallow event. The magnitude-derived energy estimate is 3.98e+12 joules, or about 951 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 416. 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: 132 km E of Bitung, 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]. — GDACS
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