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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 272 km NE of Lospalos, Timor Leste


Earthquake location -6.9999S, 128.9397WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 272 km NE of Lospalos, Timor Leste (169 miles) on Sunday. Exact location, longitude 128.9397° East, latitude -6.9999° South, depth = 184.5 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us6000aevw. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000aevw. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:12:12 / 3:12 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 184.5 km (115 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 14/06/20 / 2020-06-14 15:12:12 / June 14, 2020 @ 3:12 pm.

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 272 km NE of Lospalos, Timor Leste.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.9397° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.9999° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 184.5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 272 km NE of Lospalos, 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 15:12:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-06-22 18:40:12 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 284 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 2.534 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 82 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 us6000aevw Id of event.
Event Code 6000aevw An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000aevw, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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