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Magnitude 6.0 earthquake reported near Vanuatu
A magnitude 6.0 earthquake has been reported in the region of Vanuatu by a single monitoring source. No reports of casualties or structural damage have been confirmed. It remains unverified whether the event has generated a tsunami or impacted coastal communities.
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WhereVanuatu
-17.012, 167.963 ±400 km
First reported6 days ago
Published2026-10-19 08:10 UTC
Sources1
How this travelled.
Reports1Independent tellings0
0 independently corroborated tellings, 1 unresolved. A report we could not place either way is not counted as independence.
Corrections and updates
No published correction or update is recorded. This does not reconstruct changes made before correction records were kept.
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Global Event Monitor. Magnitude 6.0 earthquake reported near Vanuatu. 2026-10-19T08:10:57.075Z. Status: published. urn:global-events-monitor:event:6423. https://global.eventmonitor.net/event/2026-10-19/m-6-vanuatu-72992fb9
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