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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag strikes near Dili in East Timor

Posted by admin on November 5, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location -8.2572S, 124.8125WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) strikes 90 kilometers (56 miles) from Dili in East Timor on Friday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 4.24 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us10003uwi. Event ids that are associated: us10003uwi. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/11/15 / 2015-11-05 16:24:11 / November 5, 2015 @ 4:24 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has been issued near Dili in East Timor (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:24:11 / 12:24 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 124.8125 East, latitude -8.2572 South, depth = 4.24 km.

The epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Dili (c. 150 000 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Atambua (c. 35 800 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Maliana (c. 22 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Liquica (c. 19 000 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Aileu (c. 17 400 pop), 59 km (36 miles) from Maubara (c. 16 300 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Gleno (c. 8 100 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop), East Timor (c. 1 155 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Aileu, Atambua, Maliana.

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 eight, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days twelve earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 90 km WNW of Dili, East Timor.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.8125° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.2572° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.24 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 90km 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 2015-11-05 16:24:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-05 16:40:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 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 400 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 1.583 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.11 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 47 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 us10003uwi Id of event.
Event Code 10003uwi An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003uwi, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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