Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag strikes near Banda Sea

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) was reported Banda Sea (0 miles) on Friday. Exact time and date of earthquake 10/10/25 / 2025-10-10 10:02:51 / October 10, 2025 @ 10:02 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 158.185 km (98 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rg2a. Id of event: us6000rg2a. The 5.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:02:51 / 10:02 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 129.544° East, latitude -6.9375° South, depth = 158.185 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: Banda Sea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	129.544° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.9375° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	158.185 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	2025-10-10 10:02:51	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-10 10:17:57	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	465	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	92	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	4.816	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.57 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	26	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	us6000rg2a	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rg2a	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rg2a,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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