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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 38 km ESE of Same, Timor Leste

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Same in Timor Leste. Exact location of earthquake, 125.9744° East, -9.1429° South, depth 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:10:45 / 10:10 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rh71. Unique identifier: us6000rh71. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 14/10/25 / 2025-10-14 22:10:45 / October 14, 2025 @ 10:10 pm.

Event epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Dili (c. 150 000 pop), 39 km (24 miles) from Same (c. 25 000 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Maliana (c. 22 000 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Suai (c. 21 500 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Liquica (c. 19 000 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Aileu (c. 17 400 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Baucau (c. 16 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Liquica, Baucau, Maliana. Country/countries that might be effected, East Timor (c. 1 155 000 pop).

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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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: 38 km ESE of Same, Timor Leste.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	125.9744° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-9.1429° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	38 km ESE of Same, 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	2025-10-14 22:10:45	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-15 00:29:50	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	326	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	15	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.791	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.78 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	137	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	us6000rh71	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rh71	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rh71,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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