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Moderate earthquake 5.3 mag, 282 km ENE of Lospalos, Timor Leste

Posted by admin on May 9, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -7.1234S, 129.138WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) strikes 282 km ENE of Lospalos, Timor Leste (175 miles) on Friday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:45:44 / 10:45 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 164.942 km (102 miles). Exact location, longitude 129.138° East, latitude -7.1234° South, depth = 164.942 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/05/25 / 2025-05-09 22:45:44 / May 9, 2025 @ 10:45 pm. Event id: us7000pyc9. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pyc9.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days one hundred and fourty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 282 km ENE of Lospalos, Timor Leste.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 129.138° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.1234° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 164.942 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 282 km ENE 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 2025-05-09 22:45:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-05-09 23:05:42 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 432 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 104 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 5.2 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 21 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 us7000pyc9 Id of event.
Event Code 7000pyc9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pyc9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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