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A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck the Indian Ocean off North Sumatra on 18 August 2026, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The quake was recorded at 06:02 UTC (around 13:02 local time), with its epicentre located roughly 154km south-south-east of Teluk Dalam, a town in the Nias Selatan (South Nias) regency of North…

A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck off the Pacific coast of southern Mexico on 18 August 2026, with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) recording the event at 05:02:32 UTC. The quake was centred approximately 95 kilometres south-west of Puerto Madero, a fishing port in the state of Chiapas near the Guatemalan border, at a depth…

A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia’s Far East on 17 August 2026, according to the United States Geological Survey. The quake occurred at 12:38 UTC (approximately 23:38 local time), with its epicentre located roughly 72 kilometres east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the regional capital, at coordinates 53.024°N, 159.711°E. The USGS recorded the event…

A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck near Ende, on Indonesia’s Flores island, at 00:46 UTC on 17 August 2026 (08:46 local time). The US Geological Survey’s reviewed information placed the event about 65 km north-north-west of Ende, at a depth of roughly 49 km. Its ShakeMap indicated light-to-moderate shaking, with the strongest estimated intensity around Modified…

A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck 76 kilometres north of Ruteng, the highland administrative capital of Manggarai Regency on Flores Island in Indonesia’s East Nusa Tenggara province, on 16 August 2026 at 06:51:47 UTC, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The quake originated at a shallow depth of 10 kilometres beneath the seabed, roughly…

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck the Vanuatu archipelago in the South Pacific on 16 August 2026, with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) recording the event at 03:20 UTC (around 14:20 local time). The quake was centred approximately 56 km north-north-east of Port-Olry, a coastal settlement on the northern tip of Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu’s largest…

A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck the Volcano Islands, Japan region at 19:32:30 UTC on 15 August 2026, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The reviewed USGS solution placed the epicentre at about 23.446°N, 142.787°E, with a depth of roughly 40 km. This was an offshore event in a remote part of the north-western…

A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck northern Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, at 16:25 UTC on 15 August 2026, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS). The earthquake occurred at a depth of about 72 kilometres, with its epicentre approximately 125 kilometres north-north-east of Palu. In local time, the event occurred shortly after midnight on 16 August. USGS…

A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck northern Sumatra, Indonesia, at 10:54 UTC (17:54 local time) on 15 August 2026. The US Geological Survey located it about 15 km north-north-west of Pematangsiantar at a depth of 172.5 km, while the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre placed it roughly 10 km north-north-west of the city and at 166 km depth.…

A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck near Labuan Bajo, on the western tip of Flores island in Indonesia’s East Nusa Tenggara province, on 14 August 2026. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the quake occurred at 22:37 UTC with its epicentre located roughly 49 kilometres north-east of the town, at a shallow depth of…