Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Suai in Timor Leste

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 42 kilometers (26 miles) from Suai in Timor Leste. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:16:59 / 11:16 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 125.0453 East, latitude -9.6313 South, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 16/07/25 / 2025-07-16 11:16:59 / July 16, 2025 @ 11:16 am UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us6000qvyl. Event ids that are associated: us6000qvyl. 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).

Country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop), East Timor (c. 1 155 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 61 km (38 miles) from Atambua (c. 35 800 pop), 65 km (41 miles) from Kefamenanu (c. 29 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Soe (c. 27 700 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Maliana (c. 22 000 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Suai (c. 21 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Ainaro (c. 12 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ainaro, Soe, Pante Makasar (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred 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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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 42 km SSW of Suai, Timor Leste.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	125.0453° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-9.6313° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	42 km SSW of Suai, 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	2025-07-16 11:16:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-08-02 05:14:18	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	259	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	11	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.777	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	131	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	us6000qvyl	Id of event.
Event Code	6000qvyl	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000qvyl,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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