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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Banda Sea


Earthquake location -6.6061S, 128.61WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, Banda Sea (0 miles). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 240.83 km (150 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 05/07/17 / 2017-07-05 02:54:38 / July 5, 2017 @ 2:54 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 11:54:38 / 11:54 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 128.61° East, latitude -6.6061° South, depth = 240.83 km. Unique identifier: us100096tb. Ids that are associated to the event: us100096tb.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: Banda Sea.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.61° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.6061° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 240.83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Banda Sea Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-07-05 02:54:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-10 03:54:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 312 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.997 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us100096tb Id of event.
Event Code 100096tb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100096tb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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