Quake Info: Strong Mag. 5.4 Earthquake – Banda Sea, 110 km North of Maumere, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, on Saturday, Jul 23, 2022 at 3:35 pm (GMT +8)

The German Analysis Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) reported a magnitude 5.3 quake in Indonesia close to Maumere, East Nusa Tenggara, solely 12 minutes in the past. The earthquake hit early afternoon on Saturday, July twenty third, 2022, at 3:35 pm native time at a shallow depth of 10 km. The precise magnitude, epicenter, and depth of the quake could be revised throughout the subsequent few hours or minutes as seismologists overview knowledge and refine their calculations, or as different companies situation their report.
A second report was later issued by the citizen-seismograph community of RaspberryShake, which listed it as a magnitude 5.3 earthquake as effectively. A 3rd company, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC), reported the identical quake at magnitude 5.6.
Based mostly on the preliminary seismic knowledge, the quake mustn’t have induced any vital injury, however was most likely felt by many individuals as gentle vibration within the space of the epicenter.
Weak shaking may need been felt in Maumere (pop. 47,600) positioned 110 km from the epicenter.
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Based mostly on its magnitude, the fault that was lively through the quake ruptured alongside a floor of approx. 25 km² (=10 sqare miles) as a first-order estimate. The size of the rupture zone thus was most likely round 9 km (5 mi).
Aftershocks usually happen through the days and weeks following the quake at or close to the identical fault, at distances of as much as approx. two occasions the size of the rupture zone.
The customarily broadly linear association of aftershock epicenters encompasses the rupture zone of the principle shock (test on the map beneath to confirm).

Jul 23, 2022 13:11 5 hours in the past	3.3 15 km	Banda Sea, 116 km N of Maumere, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia	Extra
Jul 23, 2022 09:19 9 hours in the past	3.3 20 km	Banda Sea, 116 km N of Maumere, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia	Extra
Jul 23, 2022 08:19 10 hours in the past	4.0 35 km	Banda Sea, 119 km N of Maumere, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia	Extra

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