Strong earthquake, 6 mag strikes near southeast Indian Ridge

A earthquake with magnitude 6 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, southeast Indian Ridge (0 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 96.886 East, latitude -45.2765 South, depth = 10 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: us6000rktg. Unique identifier: us6000rktg. The temblor was reported at 20:53:24 / 8:53 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 31/10/25 / 2025-10-31 20:53:24 / October 31, 2025 @ 8:53 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 135 quakes 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: southeast Indian Ridge. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	96.886° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-45.2765° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	southeast Indian Ridge	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-10-31 20:53:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-31 21:11:28	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	554	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	151	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	18.499	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.5 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	41	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	us6000rktg	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rktg	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rktg,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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