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Prakruti

Observed earthquake

98 km S of Encounter Bay, Australia

Recent observation

Reported by 3 agencies. Every solution below is that agency's own measurement, stored unaltered.

Magnitude
4.7mb
Depth
10 km
shallow
Origin time
2026-10-26 21:18:11 UTC
19 h ago
Epicentre
36.46°S, 138.53°E

Agency solutions

The same earthquake as measured independently by each agency. Values are never averaged or rewritten.

Recent observation
AgencyMagnitudeDepthOrigin timeEpicentreReview statusSource record
GEOFONGFZ Helmholtz Centre for GeosciencesM5.1 mb10 km2026-10-26 21:18:11 UTC36.48°S, 138.53°ENot statedgfz2026vacc ↗
USGSUnited States Geological SurveyM4.7 mb10 km2026-10-26 21:18:11 UTC36.46°S, 138.53°EReviewed by an analyst27 stationsus7000ttci ↗
EMSCEuropean-Mediterranean Seismological CentreM4.7 mb10 km2026-10-26 21:18:11 UTC36.46°S, 138.57°ENot stated20261026_0000280 ↗

Source: Earthquake solutions from the GEOFON programme, GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences. · Retrieved: 2026-10-27 13:25:52 UTC · grouped with match confidence 95%

Source: Earthquake data courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey. · Retrieved: 2026-10-27 13:25:48 UTC

Source: Earthquake data from the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) via SeismicPortal. · Retrieved: 2026-10-27 13:25:50 UTC · grouped with match confidence 98%

Why the agencies differ

Historical data

Differences of a few tenths of a magnitude unit and tens of kilometres are normal and expected. Each agency uses a different set of seismic stations, a different velocity model for the Earth's interior, and sometimes a different magnitude scale altogether. None of them is “wrong”; they are independent measurements of the same event.

Prakruti groups solutions only when they agree closely in both time and location, and shows the preferred solution — favouring an analyst-reviewed moment magnitude where one exists — while keeping every other solution visible above.

Felt reports

Recent observation
32 people submitted a felt report to United States Geological Survey · community intensity estimate 3.8.

Felt reports are crowd-sourced and reflect where people had internet access and chose to respond. They are not a complete map of who felt the earthquake.