A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Lospalos in Timor Leste. Unique identifier: us6000q6pn. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000q6pn. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/04/25 / 2025-04-17 07:26:41 / April 17, 2025 @ 7:26 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 126.8716 East, latitude -8.6753 South, depth = 25.814 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 25.814 km (16 miles). The temblor was picked up at 07:26:41 / 7:26 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Manatuto, Viqueque, Venilale (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 23 km (14 miles) from Lospalos (c. 17 200 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Baucau (c. 16 000 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Venilale (c. 16 000 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Viqueque (c. 6 100 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Manatuto (c. 1 900 pop). Nearby country/countries, East Timor (c. 1 155 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 four 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. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 21 km SW of Lospalos, Timor Leste.

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