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


Earthquake location -8.4042S, 125.0619WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Dili in East Timor. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 16:15:02 / 4:15 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 04/11/15 / 2015-11-04 08:15:02 / November 4, 2015 @ 8:15 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us200041vm. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us200041vm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 43.24 km, 125.0619° East, -8.4042° South. The epicenter was at a depth of 43.24 km (27 miles).

The epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from Dili (c. 150 000 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Atambua (c. 35 800 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Same (c. 25 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Maliana (c. 22 000 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Suai (c. 21 500 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Liquica (c. 19 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Aileu (c. 17 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Suai, Same, Ainaro (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop), East Timor (c. 1 155 000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 58 km WNW of Dili, East Timor.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.0619° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.4042° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 43.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 58km 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 2015-11-04 08:15:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-04 08:36:17 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 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 0 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 385 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 1.555 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.38 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 56 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 us200041vm Id of event.
Event Code 200041vm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200041vm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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