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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Banda Sea


Earthquake location -6.7369S, 129.7489WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Thursday, Banda Sea (0 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 129.7489 East, latitude -6.7369 South, depth = 173.07 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 173.07 km (108 miles) below the earth’s surface. 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: us7000ca7z. Unique identifier: us7000ca7z. The temblor was picked up at 01:03:58 / 1:03 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 29/10/20 / 2020-10-29 01:03:58 / October 29, 2020 @ 1:03 am UTC/GMT.

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

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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. 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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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 129.7489° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.7369° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 173.07 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 2020-10-29 01:03:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-11-23 04:51:15 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 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.973 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.97 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 96 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 us7000ca7z Id of event.
Event Code 7000ca7z An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ca7z, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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