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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 33 km W of Pante Makasar, Timor Leste


Earthquake location -9.1955S, 124.0751WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 33 kilometers (21 miles) from Pante Makasar in Timor Leste. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 113.96 km (71 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 02/07/20 / 2020-07-02 18:04:05 / July 2, 2020 @ 6:04 pm. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 18:04:05 / 6:04 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 124.0751 East, latitude -9.1955 South, depth = 113.96 km. Unique identifier: us7000ak56. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000ak56.

Earthquake epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Atambua (c. 35 800 pop), 52 km (32 miles) from Kefamenanu (c. 29 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Soe (c. 27 700 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Pante Makasar (c. 4 700 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop), East Timor (c. 1 155 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Atambua, Soe, Kefamenanu.

Every 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 one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days twenty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 33 km W of Pante Makasar, Timor Leste. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.0751° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -9.1955° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 113.96 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 33 km W 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 2020-07-02 18:04:05 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-07-12 15:08:14 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 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 0.587 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.68 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 71 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 us7000ak56 Id of event.
Event Code 7000ak56 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000ak56, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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