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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Dili in East Timor

Posted by admin on July 2, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location -7.7564S, 128.1692WA light earthquake magnitude 4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 299 km ENE of Dili, East Timor (186 miles). The temblor was detected at 01:42:38 / 1:42 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 128.1692 East, latitude -7.7564 South, depth = 148.78 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us20009pb4. Unique identifier: us20009pb4. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 19/06/17 / 2017-06-19 16:42:38 / June 19, 2017 @ 4:42 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 148.78 km (92 miles).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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 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: 299 km ENE of Dili, East Timor.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.1692° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.7564° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 148.78 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 299km ENE 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 2017-06-19 16:42:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-02 20:33:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 246 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 3.108 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.33 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 193 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 us20009pb4 Id of event.
Event Code 20009pb4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20009pb4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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