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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Pante Makasar in Timor Leste


Earthquake location -9.0098S, 124.1306WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Pante Makasar in Timor Leste. Exact location of event, longitude 124.1306 East, latitude -9.0098 South, depth = 81.53 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 81.53 km (51 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was detected at 03:35:20 / 3:35 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 14/06/20 / 2020-06-14 03:35:20 / June 14, 2020 @ 3:35 am UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: us6000abjt. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000abjt. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Soe, Atambua, Kefamenanu. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop), East Timor (c. 1 155 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 84 km (52 miles) from Atambua (c. 35 800 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Kefamenanu (c. 29 500 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Soe (c. 27 700 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Pante Makasar (c. 4 700 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 twenty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 34 km NW of Pante Makasar, Timor Leste.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.1306° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -9.0098° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 81.53 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34 km NW of Pante Makasar, Timor Leste Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-06-14 03:35:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-14 03:53:11 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 369 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 0.752 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000abjt Id of event.
Event Code 6000abjt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000abjt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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