Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 239 km ENE of Dili, East Timor

A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 239 km ENE of Dili, East Timor (149 miles) on Friday. The epicenter was at a depth of 170.79 km (106 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 27/09/19 / 2019-09-27 03:25:36 / September 27, 2019 @ 3:25 am. Exact location of event, longitude 127.5604 East, latitude -7.6741 South, depth = 170.79 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:25:36 / 12:25 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us70005m6r. Event ids that are associated: us70005m6r.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 239 km ENE of Dili, East Timor. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	127.5604° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-7.6741° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	170.79 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	239km 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	2019-09-27 03:25:36	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-09-27 03:42:05	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	298	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	3.716	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.35 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	120	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	us70005m6r	Id of event.
Event Code	70005m6r	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70005m6r,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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