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6.9MAG

STRONG EARTHQUAKE

197 km WNW of Port-Olry, Vanuatu

2 hours ago

USGSTSUNAMI THREAT

A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck 197 km WNW of Port-Olry, Vanuatu on 24 Oct 2026, 02:31 UTC. The hypocentre was 10 km below the surface — shallow by seismological convention. No felt reports have been received so far. The reporting agency flagged a tsunami threat for this event; follow official warnings rather than this page. The figures have been revised 6 times since the first report. 28 other earthquakes above our reporting threshold have been recorded within 250 km in the past 30 days.

Depth: 10 km
Latitude: 14.06°S
Time: 02:31 UTC
Magnitude: M6.9

EPICENTRE

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MAGNITUDE 6.9

Can be destructive in populated areas up to about 160 km across.

The scale is logarithmic: this released about 710 times the energy of a magnitude 5.0, roughly the energy of 338 thousand tonnes of TNT.

10 KM DEEP

Shallow earthquakes release their energy close to the surface, so they are felt more strongly, and do more damage, than deeper earthquakes of the same magnitude.