Entity

Earthquake

Sudden ground shaking from shifts in the Earth's crust; tracked for disaster, insurance, and infrastructure impact.

As of 28 Oct 2026Last evidence 27 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • M5.0 earthquake — 198 km WNW of Port-Olry, Vanuatu

    Reported event · first reported 22 Oct 2026 to 25 Oct 2026 · 3 claims · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

  • Serbian leader Aleksandar Vučić ousted by student movement in seismic election

    Reported event · first reported 25 Oct 2026 · 2 claims · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Disaster: earthquake

    Registered event · reported 24 May 2026 to 25 Oct 2026 · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • M4.5 earthquake — 74 km SSE of Onagawa Chō, Japan

    Reported claim · first reported 24 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

  • M4.9 earthquake — 35 km ESE of Hualien City, Taiwan

    Reported claim · first reported 24 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

All 9 events and claims involving Earthquake

What changed

  • Attention Fading: 40 mentions on 28 Oct 2026, against 44 on 7 Oct 2026 (-9%).
  • State No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 16 Oct 2026.
  • Claims No claim first reported since 27 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

2,150 documents · 240 publishers · 60% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 27 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.599: about 40% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 1 receipt withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Earthquake

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

IcelandIndonesiaJapanChinaClimateAIImmigrationRussiaPhilippines
  • Iceland · 289 shared documents
  • Indonesia · 208 shared documents
  • Japan · 207 shared documents
  • China · 185 shared documents
  • Climate · 157 shared documents
  • AI · 149 shared documents
  • Immigration · 144 shared documents
  • Philippine · 132 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Russia · 132 shared documents
  • Philippines · 131 shared documents

Story momentum

Fading

The word compares 40 mentions on 28 Oct 2026 with 44 on 7 Oct 2026 (-9%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +167% from 13 Sept 2026 to 28 Oct 2026, between 7 and 58 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Earthquake, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

No open prediction market prices a question materially about Earthquake yet. Ask about Earthquake

No market price on file: no prediction market prices a question about this name yet

Coverage volume and market price are separate measures.

For developers

This page is also an object: GET https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/0e04c5e5540df1df04f784ef returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name earthquake.

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      {
        "level": "not shown",
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        "edge": "counted daily from tracked coverage; single mentions are not listed one by one"
      }
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  }
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The figures on this page, as data. The tool returns the full entity record.

Events involving Earthquake

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • M5.0 earthquake — 198 km WNW of Port-Olry, Vanuatu

    Reported event · first reported 22 Oct 2026 to 25 Oct 2026 · 3 claims · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    Show the 3 individual claims
    • M5.2 earthquake — 50 km WNW of Malfa, Italy · could not check · first reported 23 Oct 2026 · 1 separate publisher
    • M5.0 earthquake — 198 km WNW of Port-Olry, Vanuatu · could not check · first reported 22 Oct 2026 · 1 separate publisher
    • M5.1 earthquake — 166 km WNW of Port-Olry, Vanuatu · could not check · first reported 25 Oct 2026 · 1 separate publisher

  • Serbian leader Aleksandar Vučić ousted by student movement in seismic election

    Reported event · first reported 25 Oct 2026 · 2 claims · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    Show the 2 individual claims
    • Serbian leader Aleksandar Vučić ousted by student movement in seismic election · single source · first reported 25 Oct 2026 · 2 separate publishers
    • Student List wins Serbian election in political earthquake as Vučić concedes defeat · single source · first reported 25 Oct 2026 · 1 separate publisher

  • Disaster: earthquake

    Registered event · reported 24 May 2026 to 25 Oct 2026 · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • M4.5 earthquake — 74 km SSE of Onagawa Chō, Japan

    Reported claim · first reported 24 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    could not check

  • M4.9 earthquake — 35 km ESE of Hualien City, Taiwan

    Reported claim · first reported 24 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    could not check

  • M5.4 earthquake — 33 km ESE of Ambunti, Papua New Guinea

    Reported claim · first reported 23 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    could not check

  • M7.0 earthquake — 191 km ENE of Nagqu, China

    Reported claim · first reported 23 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    could not check

  • M5.3 earthquake — Reykjanes Ridge

    Reported claim · first reported 22 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    could not check

  • Magnitude-7 earthquake hits China’s Tibet, killing at least 16 and destroying hundreds of homes

    Reported claim · first reported 22 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    corroborated

Walk the record from Earthquake

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Earthquake

Entity.

Evidence
2,150 documents · 240 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 6 Apr 2026, last seen 27 Oct 2026
Measured
60% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
28 Oct 2026
22 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (11)

  • Corroborated: Reported by three or more sources that did not copy each other.
  • Single source: Reported by one source so far.
  • Could not check: We could not count this claim's sources, so we do not say how well it is supported.

Situations it is named in (1)

For machines: this record as JSON

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What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Earthquake, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

Evidence tiers: primary source = an official public record · attributed = a named outlet, receipt linked · lead = observed, not yet receipted.

Markets materially about Earthquake

Markets whose question is about Earthquake or names it as a party. Each row says how the market relates to Earthquake and why. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue.

2 markets past their stated close date are not shown as open: “Will the biggest earthquake on October 27, 2026 be 5.7 to 5.8?” (closed 27 Oct 2026); “Will the biggest earthquake on October 26, 2026 be 5.5 to 5.6?” (closed 26 Oct 2026).

What it connects to

Related records.

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Recorded history

No change in coverage state or wire tier recorded since 16 Oct 2026.

Ask about EarthquakeWatch Earthquake

Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 28 Oct 2026.