What the records say
- When
- 1 Feb 1938
- Kind
- Earthquake
- Magnitude
- 8.6
- Where
- Indonesia
- Coordinates
- 5.04° S, 131.61° E
- Houses destroyed
- 24
- Intensity mmi
- 6
- Depth km
- 25
1938 Banda Sea earthquake
The 1938 Banda Sea earthquake occurred on February 2 at 04:04 local time with an estimated magnitude of 8.5-8.6 on the moment magnitude scale. Shaking was intense with an assigned Rossi–Forel intensity of VII and intensity of VI (Strong) on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale. This oblique-slip event generated a destructive tsunami of up to 1.5 metres in the Banda Sea region, but there were no deaths.
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The source
- NCEI significant earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptionsNOAA National Centers for Environmental InformationPublic domainSource page