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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Ainaro in East Timor


Earthquake location -9.376S, 126.3634WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 103 kilometers (64 miles) from Ainaro in East Timor on Tuesday. Global time and date of event 13/02/18 / 2018-02-13 00:50:54 / February 13, 2018 @ 12:50 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us2000d18c. Event ids that are associated: us2000d18c. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35 km (22 miles). Exact location, longitude 126.3634° East, latitude -9.376° South, depth = 35 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 08:50:54 / 8:50 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Same, Venilale, Viqueque. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, East Timor (c. 1 155 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 89 km (55 miles) from Same (c. 25 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Venilale (c. 16 000 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Viqueque (c. 6 100 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 103 km ESE of Ainaro, East Timor. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 126.3634° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -9.376° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 103km ESE 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 2018-02-13 00:50:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-13 01:22:55 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 312 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 2.101 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 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 us2000d18c Id of event.
Event Code 2000d18c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d18c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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