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Light earthquake: M4.1 quake has struck near Dili in East Timor


Earthquake location -7.3935S, 127.8719WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 284 km ENE of Dili, East Timor (176 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000j8tv. Id of event: us1000j8tv. Global time and date of event 18/02/19 / 2019-02-18 18:59:10 / February 18, 2019 @ 6:59 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:59:10 / 3:59 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 147.09 km (91 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 127.8719° East, latitude -7.3935° South, depth = 147.09 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

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. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 284 km ENE of Dili, East Timor.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.8719° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.3935° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 147.09 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 284km ENE 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 2019-02-18 18:59:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-03-11 15:50:12 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 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 259 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 3.446 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 75 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 us1000j8tv Id of event.
Event Code 1000j8tv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000j8tv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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