M5.4 Shallow Earthquake Recorded Near 109 km ENE of Luganville, Vanuatu

USGS Week reports M5.4 near 109 km ENE of Luganville, Vanuatu, with a 10.0 km catalog depth.

Published 2026-10-29T01:48:11.665Z

The event began at Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:08:20 GMT. USGS Week reports magnitude 5.4, 10.0 km catalog depth, and coordinates -15.121, 168.099.

The catalog location label is 109 km ENE of Luganville, 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 7.94e+12 joules, or about 1,898 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 449. 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.