M 4.9 earthquake – Banda Sea
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Local time: Jan 3, 1996 · 12:54 (UTC+8)
LightIntermediate · 100 km
Reviewed by a seismologist
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- Magnitude
- 4.9body-wave magnitude (mb)
- Depth
- 100 kmIntermediate earthquake
- Epicenter
- -6.768, 129.675354 km from Lospalos
- Energy released
- 338 tons of TNTless than one Hiroshima bomb
- Felt reports
- —"Did You Feel It?" responses
- Shaking intensity
- —not estimated
- Aftershocks
- 2M2.5+ within 30 km, up to 60 days
- Significance
- 369USGS score, 0–1,000+
Not rare around here
An earthquake at least as strong struck within 300 km on Dec 31, 1995.
How strong was it?
Light earthquake. It released 338 tons of TNT, 1.4 times less than a magnitude 5.0. Bars use the magnitude scale: every step is about 32 times more energy.
Aftershocks
2 earthquakes of M2.5+ within 30 km in the 60 days after.
The strongest earthquakes within 300 km
Since 1900.
- 8.5 1938 Banda Sea Earthquake Feb 1, 1938
- 8.1 1963 Banda Sea Earthquake Nov 4, 1963
- 7.7 Banda Sea Nov 2, 1950
- 7.6 Pulau Pulau Tanimbar, Indonesia Jan 9, 2023
- 7.6 196 km S of Ambon, Indonesia Jan 27, 2006
- 7.5 273 km WSW of Tual, Indonesia Jun 3, 1927
- 7.3 125 km NNE of Lospalos, Timor Leste Dec 29, 2021
- 7.3 Banda Sea Jun 24, 2019
In the week before
Earthquakes within 30 km in the 7 days before this one: possible foreshocks.