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USGS us100085ws
1 Mar 2017, 06:59
Banda Sea
A magnitude 5.3 mww earthquake at 141 km depth.
Published location
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-6.366000, 130.037200
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Catalog fields and provenance
Event ID
us100085ws
Coordinates
-6.366, 130.0372
Network
us
Significance
433