The 1629 Banda Sea earthquake struck the

Banda Sea The Banda Sea (, , ) is one of four seas that surround the Maluku Islands of Indonesia, connected to the Pacific Ocean, but surrounded by hundreds of islands, including Timor, as well as the Halmahera Sea, Halmahera and Ceram Seas. It is about ...

, Indonesia on August 1. Its epicentre is believed to have been in the Seram Trough. A

megathrust earthquake Megathrust earthquakes occur at convergent plate boundaries, where one tectonic plate is forced underneath another. The earthquakes are caused by slip along the thrust fault that forms the contact between the two plates. These interplate earthq ...

caused a tsunami, which was recorded to have affected the

Banda Islands The Banda Islands () are a volcanic group of ten small volcanic islands in the Banda Sea, about south of Seram Island and about east of Java (island), Java, and constitute an administrative district (''kecamatan'') within the Central Maluku ...

about 30 minutes after the quake. The effects of the tsunami were reported as far as away in Ambon. Many trees in the Banda Islands were reported to have been uprooted.

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