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M5.4 Earthquake Strikes East of Luganville, Vanuatu

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A paper drum recorder with a dense seismogram trace wrapped around its rotating drum.
A helicorder traces ground motion onto a paper drum, the kind of continuous record that earthquake catalogs are built from (illustrative)."Historischer Seismograph" by Ilyacadiz, via wikimedia, CC-BY-SA-4.0

A magnitude 5.4 earthquake struck 109 kilometers east-northeast of Luganville, Vanuatu, at 00:08 UTC on Oct. 29, 2026, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said. USGS put the quake's depth at 10 kilometers.

USGS's Did You Feel It system logged one response from the area. It put the community intensity there at 4.6.

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