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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Dili in East Timor


Earthquake location -7.081S, 126.8631WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 216 km NE of Dili, East Timor (134 miles). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 01:42:52 / 1:42 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us2000i60p. Event ids that are associated: us2000i60p. The epicenter was at a depth of 345.36 km (215 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 126.8631° East, -7.081° South, depth 345.36 km. Global time and date of event 02/11/18 / 2018-11-02 17:42:52 / November 2, 2018 @ 5:42 pm UTC/GMT.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. 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 twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 216 km NE of Dili, East Timor.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.8631° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.081° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 345.36 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 216km NE 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 2018-11-02 17:42:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-11-02 21:29:57 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 312 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 3.695 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 45 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 us2000i60p Id of event.
Event Code 2000i60p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000i60p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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