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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 47 km WNW of Dili, East Timor


Earthquake location -8.4002S, 125.1723WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Dili in East Timor. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 51.45 km (32 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 125.1723° East, -8.4002° South, depth 51.45 km. Unique identifier: us100041nc. Ids that are associated to the event: us100041nc. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:55:03 / 2:55 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 27/11/15 / 2015-11-27 06:55:03 / November 27, 2015 @ 6:55 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Manatuto, Same, Atambua. Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop), East Timor (c. 1 155 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 48 km (30 miles) from Dili (c. 150 000 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Atambua (c. 35 800 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Same (c. 25 000 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Maliana (c. 22 000 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Liquica (c. 19 000 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Aileu (c. 17 400 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Maubara (c. 16 300 pop).

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 fifteen and in the last 365 days sixteen 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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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 47 km WNW of Dili, East Timor. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.1723° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.4002° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 51.45 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 47km WNW of Dili, 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 2015-11-27 06:55:03 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-27 07:22:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 326 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 1.616 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 52 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 us100041nc Id of event.
Event Code 100041nc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100041nc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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