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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Dili in East Timor

Posted by admin on April 28, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location -8.0921S, 125.9726WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Dili in East Timor on Wednesday. Global time and date of event 21/04/20 / 2020-04-21 21:05:43 / April 21, 2020 @ 9:05 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: us60009dbv. Event ids that are associated: us60009dbv. Exact location, longitude 125.9726° East, latitude -8.0921° South, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 06:05:43 / 6:05 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Gleno, Liquica, Aileu (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 68 km (42 miles) from Dili (c. 150 000 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Liquica (c. 19 000 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Aileu (c. 17 400 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Venilale (c. 16 000 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Baucau (c. 16 000 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Gleno (c. 8 100 pop). Nearby country/countries, East Timor (c. 1 155 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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: 67 km NE of Dili, East Timor.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.9726° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.0921° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67km 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 2020-04-21 21:05:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-28 02:54:20 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 284 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 2.36 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 97 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 us60009dbv Id of event.
Event Code 60009dbv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us60009dbv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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