171 km SE of Lata, Solomon Islands

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 670 tons of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 6.1 would have released about 32 times as much.

1. Northridge, California 1994 M 6.7 250× the energy of this one
2. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 11× the energy of this one
3. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 7.9× the energy of this one
4. This earthquake M 5.1 about 670 tons of TNT
5. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 this one released 1,400× 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.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.6 on 2026-09-25.

Since 2016: the QuakeIndex catalogue (US, M1.5+), built from the USGS FDSN event service. Before 2016: USGS ComCat, M5+ from 1900. Distances are between epicentres. This is the record, not a forecast.

Where

Epicentre -11.7706, 166.9610. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Aftershocks so far

1 earthquake has been recorded within 50 km since this one.

1. 5.1 176 km SE of Lata, Solomon Islands 20:00 UTC

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of 21:14 UTC. QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

On USGS

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• ShakeMap for this event, when USGS has produced one

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