Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag has occurred near Aileu in East Timor

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 210 kilometers (130 miles) from Aileu in East Timor. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 127.4831° East, -8.7769° South, depth 10 km. Global time and date of event 19/10/19 / 2019-10-19 14:29:19 / October 19, 2019 @ 2:29 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 5.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:29:19 / 10:29 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us70005vzl. Ids that are associated to the event: us70005vzl.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lospalos. The epicenter was 60 km (37 miles) from Lospalos (c. 17 200 pop). Close country/countries, East Timor (c. 1 155 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes 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 six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 210 km E of Aileu, East Timor. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	127.4831° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-8.7769° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	210km 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	2019-10-19 14:29:19	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-10-19 14:43:10	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	416	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	3.32	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.34 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	109	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	us70005vzl	Id of event.
Event Code	70005vzl	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70005vzl,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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