A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Pante Makasar in Timor Leste. Exact location, longitude 123.9459° East, latitude -9.1211° South, depth = 95.08 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us6000rfcr. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rfcr. The temblor was picked up at 13:55:54 / 1:55 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 07/10/25 / 2025-10-07 13:55:54 / October 7, 2025 @ 1:55 pm UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 95.08 km (59 miles).
Event epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Kefamenanu (c. 29 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Soe (c. 27 700 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Pante Makasar (c. 4 700 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop), East Timor (c. 1 155 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Soe, Kefamenanu, Pante Makasar (min 5000 pop).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. 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: 48 km W of Pante Makasar, Timor Leste.
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