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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Dili in East Timor


Earthquake location -7.9029S, 124.7116WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 119 km NW of Dili, East Timor (74 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/08/16 / 2016-08-09 16:01:13 / August 9, 2016 @ 4:01 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10006cz8. Id of event: us10006cz8. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:01:13 / 12:01 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 124.7116 East, latitude -7.9029 South, depth = 10 km.

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 119 km NW of Dili, East Timor.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.7116° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.9029° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 119km NW 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 2016-08-09 16:01:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-31 13:52:19 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 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 271 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 2.512 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 100 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 us10006cz8 Id of event.
Event Code 10006cz8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006cz8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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