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Light earthquake, 4 mag strikes near Lospalos in Timor Leste


Earthquake location -7.508S, 128.3824WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 189 km NE of Lospalos, Timor Leste (117 miles) on Friday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/05/20 / 2020-05-22 18:05:52 / May 22, 2020 @ 6:05 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000a1tc. Id of event: us6000a1tc. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 169.51 km (105 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 18:05:52 / 6:05 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 128.3824 East, latitude -7.508 South, depth = 169.51 km.

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 four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days ninety-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 189 km NE of Lospalos, Timor Leste.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.3824° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.508° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 169.51 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 189 km NE of Lospalos, Timor Leste Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-22 18:05:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-19 15:23:57 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 4.641 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 57 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 us6000a1tc Id of event.
Event Code 6000a1tc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000a1tc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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