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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Lospalos in Timor Leste

Posted by admin on June 1, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -8.9048S, 127.1009WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Lospalos in Timor Leste. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qh6y. Id of event: us6000qh6y. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 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 location, longitude 127.1009° East, latitude -8.9048° South, depth = 10 km. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:40:40 / 4:40 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 01/06/25 / 2025-06-01 04:40:40 / June 1, 2025 @ 4:40 am.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Baucau, Venilale, Viqueque (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, East Timor (c. 1 155 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 44 km (28 miles) from Lospalos (c. 17 200 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Baucau (c. 16 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Venilale (c. 16 000 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Viqueque (c. 6 100 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 43 km SSE of Lospalos, Timor Leste. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 127.1009° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -8.9048° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43 km SSE 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 2025-06-01 04:40:40 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-06-01 05:14:17 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 326 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 25 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.814 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 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 us6000qh6y Id of event.
Event Code 6000qh6y An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qh6y, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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