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Light earthquake: M4.6 quake has struck near Dili in East Timor


Earthquake location -8.318S, 125.0454WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Dili in East Timor. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 06:37:59 / 6:37 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 19/12/15 / 2015-12-19 22:37:59 / December 19, 2015 @ 10:37 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us100048em. Ids that are associated to the event: us100048em. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 125.0454 East, latitude -8.318 South, depth = 10 km.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop), East Timor (c. 1 155 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 64 km (40 miles) from Dili (c. 150 000 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Atambua (c. 35 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Maliana (c. 22 000 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Liquica (c. 19 000 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Aileu (c. 17 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Maubara (c. 16 300 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Ainaro (c. 12 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ainaro, Atambua, Maliana.

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 one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days seventeen 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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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 63 km WNW of Dili, East Timor.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 125.0454° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.318° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63km 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 2015-12-19 22:37:59 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-19 23:08:36 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 1.621 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 55 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 us100048em Id of event.
Event Code 100048em An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100048em, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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