Mw 6.8 SE Banda Sea, Indonesia: Seen in Sydney

[davenn]

20200506 1353UT
Mw 6.8 SE Banda Sea, Indonesia
Fortunately at sea
No tsunami warning issues

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us70009b14/executive

from my seismograph in Sydney, Australia...

 

[Astronuc]

Fairly deep at 107.0 km depth

M 4.3 - 233km NE of Dili, East Timor
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us70009cds/executive

• 2020-05-08 14:22:32 (UTC)
• 6.942°S 126.933°E, same general area
• 413.3 km depth, much deeper

 

[davenn]

Fairly deep at 107.0 km depth

Yes, the amplitude of the surface waves would have been so much greater had the quake been at the typical shallow depth of
5 - 20 km.D