Strong earthquake 6.4 mag, Banda Sea

A earthquake magnitude 6.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, Banda Sea (0 miles). Exact location, longitude 130.0038° East, latitude -6.6774° South, depth = 143.626 km. Global time and date of event 28/10/25 / 2025-10-28 14:40:18 / October 28, 2025 @ 2:40 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 143.626 km (89 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 14:40:18 / 2:40 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us6000rjx3. Event ids that are associated: us6000rjx3.

There are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: Banda Sea.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	130.0038° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-6.6774° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	143.626 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	2025-10-28 14:40:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-28 15:24:02	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	8	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.2	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.305	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	633	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	105	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	2.143	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.03 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	19	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000rjx3	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rjx3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rjx3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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