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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Lospalos in Timor Leste


Earthquake location -7.5616S, 128.419WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 189 km NE of Lospalos, Timor Leste (117 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 128.419° East, -7.5616° South, depth 172.04 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/01/21 / 2021-01-26 19:00:32 / January 26, 2021 @ 7:00 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000de7g. Id of event: us6000de7g. The temblor was detected at 19:00:32 / 7:00 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 172.04 km (107 miles).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days ninety-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 189 km NE of Lospalos, Timor Leste. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.419° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.5616° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 172.04 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 189 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 2021-01-26 19:00:32 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2021-02-23 18:35:21 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 298 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 2.884 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.99 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 63 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 us6000de7g Id of event.
Event Code 6000de7g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000de7g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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