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Strong M6.4 Earthquake Recorded Near southeast of Easter Island

USGS Week reports M6.4 near southeast of Easter Island, with a 10.0 km catalog depth.

Published ยท Updated 2026-10-29T08:34:12.684Z

News card for Strong M6.4 Earthquake Recorded Near southeast of Easter Island

The event began at Thu, 29 Oct 2026 07:49:50 GMT. USGS Week reports magnitude 6.4, 10.0 km catalog depth, and coordinates -36.406, -98.049.

The catalog location label is southeast of Easter Island; no separate nearest-city field was supplied with this solution. By catalog depth, this is a shallow event. The magnitude-derived energy estimate is 2.51e+14 joules, or about 60,036 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 630. 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: southeast of Easter Island โ€” USGS WeekGreen earthquake (Magnitude 6.4M, Depth:10km) in Southeast Of Easter Island 29/10/2026 07:49 UTC, [unknown]. โ€” GDACS
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