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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag was detected near Kepulauan Babar, Indonesia


Earthquake location -7.2627S, 129.6257WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, Kepulauan Babar, Indonesia (0 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rm4g. Unique identifier: us6000rm4g. Global time and date of event 18/10/25 / 2025-10-18 13:13:13 / October 18, 2025 @ 1:13 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:13:13 / 1:13 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 117.014 km (73 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of event, longitude 129.6257 East, latitude -7.2627 South, depth = 117.014 km.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: Kepulauan Babar, Indonesia.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 129.6257° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -7.2627° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 117.014 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Kepulauan Babar, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-10-18 13:13:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-07 18:59:42 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 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 16 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 5.044 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.63 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 98 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 us6000rm4g Id of event.
Event Code 6000rm4g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rm4g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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