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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Banda Sea


Earthquake location -6.7717S, 130.2271WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, Banda Sea (0 miles). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 114.653 km (71 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 130.2271 East, latitude -6.7717 South, depth = 114.653 km. The temblor was picked up at 04:04:32 / 4:04 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000myi3. Id of event: us7000myi3. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/07/24 / 2024-07-11 04:04:32 / July 11, 2024 @ 4:04 am.

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: Banda Sea. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 130.2271° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.7717° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 114.653 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 2024-07-11 04:04:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-11 04:50:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 20 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.257 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.85 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 104 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 us7000myi3 Id of event.
Event Code 7000myi3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000myi3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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