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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Pante Makasar in Timor Leste

Posted by admin on September 6, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location -9.1838S, 124.1954WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Pante Makasar in Timor Leste. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 96.893 km (60 miles). Unique identifier: us7000qtpz. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000qtpz. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:36:30 / 4:36 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 04/09/25 / 2025-09-04 04:36:30 / September 4, 2025 @ 4:36 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 124.1954 East, latitude -9.1838 South, depth = 96.893 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Atambua, Soe, Kefamenanu (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop), East Timor (c. 1 155 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 77 km (48 miles) from Atambua (c. 35 800 pop), 43 km (26 miles) from Kefamenanu (c. 29 500 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Soe (c. 27 700 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Pante Makasar (c. 4 700 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days thirty-three 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. 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: 20 km W of Pante Makasar, Timor Leste.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 124.1954° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -9.1838° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 96.893 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20 km W of Pante Makasar, 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 2025-09-04 04:36:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-06 05:17:42 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 312 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 22 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.572 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 112 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 us7000qtpz Id of event.
Event Code 7000qtpz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qtpz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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