A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) strikes 53 kilometers (33 miles) from Atambua in Indonesia on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 125.1765 East, latitude -9.4991 South, depth = 27.9 km. The 5.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 16:34:56 / 4:34 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 27.9 km (17 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us10004u9z. Ids that are associated to the event: us10004u9z. Global time and date of event 03/03/16 / 2016-03-03 08:34:56 / March 3, 2016 @ 8:34 am UTC/GMT.
Epicenter of the earthquake was 113 km (70 miles) from Dili (c. 150 000 pop), 54 km (33 miles) from Atambua (c. 35 800 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Kefamenanu (c. 29 500 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Soe (c. 27 700 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Same (c. 25 000 pop), 57 km (35 miles) from Maliana (c. 22 000 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Suai (c. 21 500 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Liquica (c. 19 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Dili, Soe, Liquica. Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop), East Timor (c. 1 155 000 pop) (That might be effected).
Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.
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