Magnitude 6.9, 197 km WNW of Port-Olry, Vanuatu.
Occurred 4 hours ago (2026-10-24 02:31 UTC). Record reviewed, last revised 1 hour ago. Fetched just now. Every number on this page comes from the USGS feed; the sentence is a template over those fields.
Magnitude 6.9 earthquake, 10 km deep, at 24 Oct 02:31 UTC, with 2 felt reports submitted. USGS places it "197 km WNW of Port-Olry, Vanuatu". A tsunami message was issued.
DERIVED. The last earthquake at least this strong within 100 km was magnitude 7.0 on 28 Nov 1985 ("148 km W of Sola, Vanuatu"). USGS ComCat search: earthquakes within 100 km of this epicentre, magnitude 6.9 or more, from 1 Jan 1900 to just before this one, newest first. Magnitudes of different types are compared as the catalogue publishes them.
ESTIMATE · USGS PAGER · GREEN. The USGS's own estimate of likely fatalities and economic losses for this earthquake, from its PAGER model. ESTIMATE: the source's own model estimate, not a count. PAGER at the USGS
Epicentre at -14.056, 165.546 (USGS). The dashed ring is 100 km. Coastlines from Natural Earth (public domain), drawn from the coordinate; nothing placed by hand.