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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 44 km SE of Ainaro, East Timor


Earthquake location -9.2499S, 125.823WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (mg/mb) was reported Wednesday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Ainaro in East Timor. The temblor was reported at 04:24:38 / 4:24 am (local time epicenter) at a depth of 61.31 km (38 miles). Global time of event 02/06/15 / 2015-06-02 19:24:38 / June 2, 2015 @ 7:24 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Exact location of event, longitude 125.823 East, latitude -9.2499 South, depth 61.31 km, unique identifier, us20002ldu. Ids that are associated to the event, ,us20002ldu,.

Close countries, East Timor (c. 1 155 000 pop). The epicenter was 82 km (51 miles) from Dili (c. 150 000 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Same (c. 25 000 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Maliana (c. 22 000 pop), 63 km (39 miles) from Suai (c. 21 500 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Liquica (c. 19 000 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Aileu (c. 17 400 pop). Nearest city, towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Venilale, Liquica, Manatuto.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.823° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -9.2499° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 61.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 44km SE of Ainaro, 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 2015-06-02 19:24:38 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-06-02 21:24:33 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 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 298 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 1.614 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 48 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 us20002ldu Id of event.
Event Code 20002ldu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20002ldu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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