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Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Lospalos in Timor Leste


Earthquake location -6.4897S, 128.7596WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 297 km NE of Lospalos, Timor Leste (185 miles). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 221.92 km (138 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 128.7596° East, -6.4897° South, depth 221.92 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000cs7h. Unique identifier: us7000cs7h. Global time and date of event 16/12/20 / 2020-12-16 15:50:36 / December 16, 2020 @ 3:50 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 15:50:36 / 3:50 pm (local time epicenter).

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 six, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days ninety-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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: 297 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 128.7596° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -6.4897° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 221.92 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 297 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 2020-12-16 15:50:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-12-31 04:54:14 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 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 2.923 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.98 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 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 us7000cs7h Id of event.
Event Code 7000cs7h An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000cs7h, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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