Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Pante Makasar in Timor Leste

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Pante Makasar in Timor Leste. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/09/25 / 2025-09-13 12:49:52 / September 13, 2025 @ 12:49 pm. Id of earthquake: us7000qvzj. Event ids that are associated: us7000qvzj. The epicenter was at a depth of 74.413 km (46 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 124.0556° East, -9.1932° South, depth 74.413 km. The temblor was picked up at 12:49:52 / 12:49 pm (local time epicenter).

Event epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Atambua (c. 35 800 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Kefamenanu (c. 29 500 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Soe (c. 27 700 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Pante Makasar (c. 4 700 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Atambua, Soe, Kefamenanu. Nearby country/countries, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop), East Timor (c. 1 155 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days thirty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 36 km W of Pante Makasar, Timor Leste. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	124.0556° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-9.1932° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	74.413 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	36 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	2025-09-13 12:49:52	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-09-14 05:29:40	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	284	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	24	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.88	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.69 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	73	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	us7000qvzj	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qvzj	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000qvzj,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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