Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Lospalos in Timor Leste

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 224 km NE of Lospalos, Timor Leste (139 miles). Global time and date of event 29/10/24 / 2024-10-29 16:54:28 / October 29, 2024 @ 4:54 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us7000nnvg. Event ids that are associated: us7000nnvg. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 16:54:28 / 4:54 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 145.16 km, 128.6263° East, -7.2977° South. The epicenter was at a depth of 145.16 km (90 miles).

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

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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 data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 224 km NE of Lospalos, Timor Leste.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	128.6263° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-7.2977° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	145.16 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	224 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	2024-10-29 16:54:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-10-31 22:16:21	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	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	62	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	5.651	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.55 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	43	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	us7000nnvg	Id of event.
Event Code	7000nnvg	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000nnvg,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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