Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Pante Makasar in Timor Leste

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Pante Makasar in Timor Leste. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 124.1842 East, latitude -8.9974 South, depth = 90.449 km. Id of earthquake: us6000pzdr. Event ids that are associated: us6000pzdr. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 90.449 km (56 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 17/03/25 / 2025-03-17 17:42:24 / March 17, 2025 @ 5:42 pm. The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:42:24 / 5:42 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Soe, Atambua, Kefamenanu (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop), East Timor (c. 1 155 000 pop). Event epicenter was 79 km (49 miles) from Atambua (c. 35 800 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Kefamenanu (c. 29 500 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Soe (c. 27 700 pop), 31 km (20 miles) from Pante Makasar (c. 4 700 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes 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 eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 31 km NW of Pante Makasar, Timor Leste.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	124.1842° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	-8.9974° South	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	90.449 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31 km NW 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	2025-03-17 17:42:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-17 17:59:33	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	400	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	90	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.757	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.28 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	45	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	us6000pzdr	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pzdr	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pzdr,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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