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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Lospalos in Timor Leste


Earthquake location -7.4485S, 129.0443WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 254 km ENE of Lospalos, Timor Leste (158 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 129.956 km (81 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/11/24 / 2024-11-06 18:06:18 / November 6, 2024 @ 6:06 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 129.956 km, 129.0443° East, -7.4485° South. The temblor was picked up at 18:06:18 / 6:06 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us7000nqa7. Event ids that are associated: us7000nqa7.

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 three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days sixty-two 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 254 km ENE of Lospalos, Timor Leste. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 129.0443° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.4485° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 129.956 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 254 km ENE 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 2024-11-06 18:06:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-11-06 20:11:14 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 312 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 30 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 3.03 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 107 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 us7000nqa7 Id of event.
Event Code 7000nqa7 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000nqa7, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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