Strong M6.2 Earthquake Recorded Near 43 km ESE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu

USGS Week reports M6.2 near 43 km ESE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu, with a 142.8 km catalog depth.

Published 2026-10-29T22:10:14.431Z

The event began at Thu, 29 Oct 2026 21:46:44 GMT. USGS Week reports magnitude 6.2, 142.8 km catalog depth, and coordinates -15.189, 167.452.

The catalog location label is 43 km ESE of Port-Olry, Vanuatu; 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 1.26e+14 joules, or about 30,089 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 591. 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.