M4.8 earthquake Banda Sea
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck in the Banda Sea on Wed, Aug 5, 2026, 12:16 PM GMT+9 (03:16 UTC), 232 km (144 mi) below the surface.
A larger quake followed: M5.9 253 km ENE of Lospalos, Timor Leste. This one was a foreshock.
Map
Where this earthquake was located, with the others nearby. Select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Magnitude
- 4.8 (mb, body-wave), light
- Magnitude from
- USGS National Earthquake Information Center
- Local time
- UTC
- 2026-08-05 03:16:06 UTC
- Depth
- 232.3 km (144.3 mi), intermediate-depth
- Epicenter
- 6.449° S, 128.907° E
- Tsunami flag
- No
- Status
- Reviewed by a seismologist
Did you feel it?
No one has reported feeling this quake to the USGS.
How well it is located
Reviewed by a seismologist.
- Location uncertainty
- About 9.0 km horizontally, 7.3 km in depth
- Magnitude uncertainty
- ±0.08
- Depth from
- From location
- Station coverage gap
- 80°
- Stations used
- 64
Nearest places
Distance and direction from each place to the epicenter, with its forecast.
Nearby
Within 100 km, magnitude 1.8 and up: 6 since this one and 7 in the 30 days before it.
After
- 4.6Banda Sea · 52 days ago · 173 km deep · 94 km away
- 4.1Banda Sea · 51 days ago · 215 km deep · 53 km away
- 4.4Banda Sea · 51 days ago · 194 km deep · 63 km away
- 4.2229 km NE of Lospalos, Timor Leste · 26 days ago · 145 km deep · 96 km away
- 5.9253 km ENE of Lospalos, Timor Leste · 21 days ago · 112 km deep · 93 km away · felt by 8
- 4.6296 km S of Ambon, Indonesia · 10 days ago · 296 km deep · 33 km away
Before
- 4.1Banda Sea · 62 days ago · 154 km deep · 86 km away
- 4.2Banda Sea · 70 days ago · 191 km deep · 84 km away
- 4.3261 km SSE of Ambon, Indonesia · 74 days ago · 309 km deep · 54 km away
- 4.4Banda Sea · 77 days ago · 227 km deep · 24 km away
- 4.4282 km NE of Lospalos, Timor Leste · 77 days ago · 314 km deep · 44 km away
- 4.5Kepulauan Babar, Indonesia · 80 days ago · 160 km deep · 84 km away
- 4.3287 km ENE of Lospalos, Timor Leste · 83 days ago · 125 km deep · 95 km away
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Sources
From the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program and its partner networks, event us6000ti6f. Read Fri, Oct 2, 2026, 6:35 PM UTC.