M5.6 earthquake Banda Sea

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck in the Banda Sea on Tue, Jul 20, 1982, 11:56 PM GMT+8 (15:56 UTC), 146 km (91 mi) below the surface.

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Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.

Different scales measure different things and differ by a few tenths. The USGS marks one as preferred, and it is the one this page uses.

Mag.	Scale	Computed by	Notes
5.6	mb, body-wave	USGS National Earthquake Information Center	Preferred · Reviewed · 28 stations
5.74	Mw, moment	ISC-GEM global catalog	Final · ±0.41

No one has reported feeling this quake to the USGS.

Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.

Within 100 km, magnitude 2.6 and up: 10 in the 60 days after this one and 2 in the 30 days before it.

From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event usp0001nh0 (also filed as iscgem595622). Read Fri, Oct 2, 2026, 4:24 PM UTC.