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Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag strikes near Lospalos in Timor Leste


Earthquake location -7.3703S, 128.6668WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 223 km NE of Lospalos, Timor Leste (139 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000nfw2. Unique identifier: us6000nfw2. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/07/24 / 2024-07-25 20:32:17 / July 25, 2024 @ 8:32 pm. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 147.3 km (92 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, depth 147.3 km, 128.6668° East, -7.3703° South. The temblor was detected at 20:32:17 / 8:32 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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 eight and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 223 km NE of Lospalos, Timor Leste.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.6668° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.3703° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 147.3 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 223 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 2024-07-25 20:32:17 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-07-25 20:49:43 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 4.028 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 465 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 96 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 5.681 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.79 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 29 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000nfw2 Id of event.
Event Code 6000nfw2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000nfw2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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