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M 5.5mww

61 km ENE of Tadine, New Caledonia

· 10 km deep · released about 2.7 kilotons of TNT

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When
Magnitude
M 5.5 (mww)
Depth
10 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Measured shaking
intensity IV (ShakeMap)
USGS impact alert
green
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 2 hours ago

This was a moderate earthquake. Shaking at this size can damage poorly built structures close to the epicentre.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 2.7 kilotons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 6.5 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 63× the energy of this one
  2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2.8× the energy of this one
  3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 2× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 5.5 about 2.7 kilotons of TNT
  5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 5,600× more

Energy from the Gutenberg–Richter relation (log10E = 1.5M + 4.8), rounded to two figures; bar length is magnitude, which is already a logarithm of energy. Magnitudes of past earthquakes from the USGS catalogue.

Where

Epicentre -21.3748, 168.4446. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

21 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.

  1. 5.1 90 km ENE of Tadine, New Caledonia
  2. 5.0 61 km ENE of Tadine, New Caledonia
  3. 4.8 74 km ENE of Tadine, New Caledonia
  4. 4.8 72 km E of Tadine, New Caledonia
  5. 5.1 74 km ENE of Tadine, New Caledonia
  6. 4.8 86 km NE of Tadine, New Caledonia
  7. 5.2 58 km NE of Tadine, New Caledonia
  8. 5.0 76 km NE of Tadine, New Caledonia
  9. 4.7 73 km ENE of Tadine, New Caledonia
  10. 4.9 73 km ENE of Tadine, New Caledonia
  11. 4.8 78 km ENE of Tadine, New Caledonia
  12. 4.8 97 km NE of Tadine, New Caledonia
  13. 4.7 71 km ENE of Tadine, New Caledonia
  14. 4.7 97 km NE of Tadine, New Caledonia
  15. 5.0 78 km ENE of Tadine, New Caledonia

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of . QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 6.6 on 2026-09-25 — it released about 45 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

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