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Light earthquake 4.2 mag, 166 km ENE of Lospalos, Timor Leste


Earthquake location -7.7585S, 128.2999WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 166 km ENE of Lospalos, Timor Leste (103 miles) on Tuesday. Exact location, longitude 128.2999° East, latitude -7.7585° South, depth = 110.854 km. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:23:10 / 7:23 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000qgfl. Id of event: us6000qgfl. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 13/05/25 / 2025-05-13 07:23:10 / May 13, 2025 @ 7:23 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 110.854 km (69 miles) below the earth’s surface.

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days eighty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 166 km ENE of Lospalos, Timor Leste.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 128.2999° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.7585° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 110.854 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 166 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 2025-05-13 07:23:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-06-05 11:14:49 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 271 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 14 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 4.453 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.92 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 136 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 us6000qgfl Id of event.
Event Code 6000qgfl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000qgfl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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