Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Aileu in East Timor

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 119 kilometers (74 miles) from Aileu in East Timor. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 39.84 km (25 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us20005ywn. Unique identifier: us20005ywn. The temblor was detected at 06:03:23 / 6:03 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 126.6414° East, latitude -8.8734° South, depth = 39.84 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 28/05/16 / 2016-05-28 21:03:23 / May 28, 2016 @ 9:03 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries, East Timor (c. 1 155 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 56 km (35 miles) from Lospalos (c. 17 200 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Venilale (c. 16 000 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Baucau (c. 16 000 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Viqueque (c. 6 100 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Manatuto (c. 1 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Manatuto, Lospalos, Baucau (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 119 km E of Aileu, East Timor. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	126.6414° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-8.8734° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	39.84 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	119km E of Aileu, 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	2016-05-28 21:03:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-05-28 21:22:22	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	540	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	2.501	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.71 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	30	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	us20005ywn	Id of event.
Event Code	20005ywn	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20005ywn,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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