A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Dili in East Timor. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 30.44 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us200041x0. Unique identifier: us200041x0. Exact location of event, depth 30.44 km, 124.9929° East, -8.2575° South. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 04/11/15 / 2015-11-04 13:24:02 / November 4, 2015 @ 1:24 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 21:24:02 / 9:24 pm (local time epicenter).
Event epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Dili (c. 150 000 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Atambua (c. 35 800 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Maliana (c. 22 000 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Liquica (c. 19 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Aileu (c. 17 400 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Maubara (c. 16 300 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Ainaro (c. 12 000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop), East Timor (c. 1 155 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ainaro, Atambua, Maliana (min 5000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 72 km WNW of Dili, East Timor.
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