Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Banda Sea

A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, Banda Sea (0 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 11/12/24 / 2024-12-11 18:35:42 / December 11, 2024 @ 6:35 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 129.6105 East, latitude -6.9702 South, depth = 177.135 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000ph21. Unique identifier: us6000ph21. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:35:42 / 6:35 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 177.135 km (110 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days one hundred earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: Banda Sea. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	129.6105° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.9702° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	177.135 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	2024-12-11 18:35:42	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-05 19:55:41	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	271	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	27	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.449	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.05 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	85	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	us6000ph21	Id of event.
Event Code	6000ph21	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000ph21,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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