EARTHQUAKE 7.3 Banda Sea

2012-12-10 16:53:10.00 8min ago 6.69 S 129.89 E 169 7.3 BANDA SEA

Magnitude M 7.3
Region BANDA SEA
Date time 2012-12-10 16:53:10.0 UTC
Location 6.69 S ; 129.89 E
Depth 169 km
Distances 1172 km E Makasar (pop 1,321,717 ; local time 00:53:10.0 2012-12-11)
384 km SE Ambon (pop 355,596 ; local time 01:53:10.0 2012-12-11)
336 km W Tual (pop 39,502 ; local time 01:53:10.0 2012-12-11)

[link to www.emsc-csem.org]

Last Edited by Rain-Man on 12/10/2012 12:02 PM

precursor earthquake... just like the 7.2 magnitude precursor earthquake before the 2004 Sumatra mega earthquake....

Last Edited by ººEATºº on 12/10/2012 12:03 PM

That's not true, also there was no Banda sea EQ in that time before big one ..

Anyway think Chile or Sumatra will have big one in days ahead ..

Date of Sumatra EQ was 26 DEC 2004 ..

Last Edited by Rain-Man on 12/10/2012 12:14 PM

occurred 129.25mi NW of Saumlaki, Indonesia

Details
[link to maps.google.com]

USGS:

Magnitude 7.2 - BANDA SEA

Depth 155.2 km (96.4 miles) set by location program
[link to earthquake.usgs.gov]

Pacific Tsunami Warning Center
[link to ptwc.weather.gov]

December 11: 7 plus predicted by Patrick Geryl

TSUNAMI BULLETIN NUMBER 001
PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER/NOAA/NWS
ISSUED AT 1702Z 10 DEC 2012

THIS BULLETIN IS FOR ALL AREAS OF THE INDIAN OCEAN.

... TSUNAMI INFORMATION BULLETIN ...

THIS MESSAGE IS FOR INFORMATION ONLY.

THIS BULLETIN IS ISSUED AS ADVICE TO GOVERNMENT AGENCIES. ONLY
NATIONAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO MAKE
DECISIONS REGARDING THE OFFICIAL STATE OF ALERT IN THEIR AREA AND
ANY ACTIONS TO BE TAKEN IN RESPONSE.

AN EARTHQUAKE HAS OCCURRED WITH THESE PRELIMINARY PARAMETERS

ORIGIN TIME - 1653Z 10 DEC 2012
COORDINATES - 6.8 SOUTH 129.8 EAST
DEPTH - 155 KM
LOCATION - BANDA SEA
MAGNITUDE - 7.2

EVALUATION

A DESTRUCTIVE TSUNAMI WAS NOT GENERATED BASED ON EARTHQUAKE AND
HISTORICAL TSUNAMI DATA. THIS EARTHQUAKE IS LOCATED TOO DEEP
INSIDE THE EARTH TO GENERATE A TSUNAMI IN THE INDIAN OCEAN.

THIS WILL BE THE ONLY BULLETIN ISSUED BY THE PACIFIC TSUNAMI
WARNING CENTER FOR THIS EVENT UNLESS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
BECOMES AVAILABLE.

THE JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY MAY ISSUE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
FOR THIS EVENT. IN THE CASE OF CONFLICTING INFORMATION...THE
MORE CONSERVATIVE INFORMATION SHOULD BE USED FOR SAFETY.
[link to ptwc.weather.gov]

pre
curse
or

Indonesia Earthquake Source
[link to aeic.bmg.go.id]

This was the first thread on the earthquake. This is the one that should have been pinned.
MODS... pin this thread... it was the first to report the earthquake. This is important as it rewards the quickness of getting the information to us!

thanks :)



Hope its not a foreshock


However till now no Tsunami Alert in effect
[link to ptwc.weather.gov]

Good job getting the info to us so fast.
Thanks!
-EAT

Most likely the reason this particular thread was not pinned is because the OP is an AC...

The Australia-Pacific plate boundary is over 4000 km long on the northern margin, from the Sunda (Java) trench in the west to the Solomon Islands in the east. The eastern section is over 2300 km long, extending west from northeast of the Australian continent and the Coral Sea until it intersects the east coast of Papua New Guinea. The boundary is dominated by the general northward subduction of the Australia plate.

Along the South Solomon trench, the Australia plate converges with the Pacific plate at a rate of approximately 95 mm/yr towards the east-northeast. Seismicity along the trench is dominantly related to subduction tectonics and large earthquakes are common: there have been 13 M7.5+ earthquakes recorded since 1900. On April 1, 2007, a M8.1 interplate megathrust earthquake occurred at the western end of the trench, generating a tsunami and killing at least 40 people. This was the third M8.1 megathrust event associated with this subduction zone in the past century; the other two occurred in 1939 and 1977...
[link to comcat.cr.usgs.gov]

Globalincident shows it up now
[link to quakes.globalincidentmap.com]

2012-12-10 16:51:55.9 43.58 S 140.59 E 15 mb 6.6 A SOUTH OF AUSTRALIA ZAMG
2012-12-10 16:51:51.3 36.44 S 154.53 E 30 A EAST OF AUSTRALIA GFU

a 6.6 Australia a minute before Indonesia

Massive but normally harmless earthquake in the Banda Sea Indonesia
Based on an increasing number of visitors joining us from the greater earthquake area, we believe that an earthquake was felt. When you are one of the people who experienced this earthquake, please fill in the form behind “I Felt A (not Listed) Earthquake”. Thank you.
Why harmless : because the hypocenter is at +150 km in the hot solid mantle of the earth.
This generates shaking in a huge area (probably the reason that so many Australians are online at the moment)


[link to earthquake-report.com]

This was a deep one.


A DESTRUCTIVE TSUNAMI WAS NOT GENERATED BASED ON EARTHQUAKE AND
HISTORICAL TSUNAMI DATA. THIS EARTHQUAKE IS LOCATED TOO DEEP
INSIDE THE EARTH TO GENERATE A TSUNAMI IN THE INDIAN OCEAN.