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Moderate earthquake: M5.7 quake has struck near Dili in East Timor

Posted by admin on November 3, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -8.3771S, 124.9686WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Dili in East Timor. A tsunami warning has been issued near Dili in East Timor (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 05:25:04 / 5:25 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us200041rk. Unique identifier: us200041rk. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/11/15 / 2015-11-03 21:25:04 / November 3, 2015 @ 9:25 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 124.9686 East, latitude -8.3771 South, depth = 35 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 35 km (22 miles).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Manatuto, Pante Makasar, Suai (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop), East Timor (c. 1 155 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 70 km (43 miles) from Dili (c. 150 000 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Atambua (c. 35 800 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Same (c. 25 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Maliana (c. 22 000 pop), 109 km (68 miles) from Suai (c. 21 500 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Liquica (c. 19 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Aileu (c. 17 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Maubara (c. 16 300 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 69 km WNW of Dili, East Timor.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.9686° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.3771° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 69km WNW of Dili, East Timor Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-03 21:25:04 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-03 21:41:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 4.16 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 1 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 500 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.534 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 43 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us200041rk Id of event.
Event Code 200041rk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200041rk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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