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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Banda Sea


Earthquake location -6.9325S, 129.6474WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes Banda Sea (0 miles) on Wednesday. Exact location of earthquake, 129.6474° East, -6.9325° South, depth 156.069 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000n8l1. Id of event: us6000n8l1. The temblor was reported at 12:36:31 / 12:36 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 156.069 km (97 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/06/24 / 2024-06-19 12:36:31 / June 19, 2024 @ 12:36 pm UTC/GMT.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 ten, in the past 30 days sixteen and in the last 365 days twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: Banda Sea. This data 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 129.6474° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.9325° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 156.069 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 2024-06-19 12:36:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-10 09:31:47 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 19 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.408 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 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 us6000n8l1 Id of event.
Event Code 6000n8l1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000n8l1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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