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Earthquakes in East Timor

3,194 earthquakes catalogued in and around East Timor between 1905 and 2026.

Last updated 14 October 2026 · merged from 5 catalogues
3.2
Latest earthquake · depth 164 km
10.10.2026 19:39 UTC · from centre 190 km
3,194
recorded earthquakes
M7.8
largest
1905–2026
record span
3.84
mean magnitude
2,010
epicentre inside the border

By year

Stacked by magnitude; one column per year.

01953901905: 1 (M5+)19051908: 1 (M5+)19151917: 1 (M5+)1918: 1 (M5+)1923: 1 (M5+)19251927: 1 (M5+)1928: 3 (M5+)1930: 2 (M5+)1931: 1 (M5+)1932: 1 (M5+)19351936: 2 (M5+)1937: 2 (M5+)1938: 1 (M5+)1939: 1 (M5+)1940: 1 (M5+)1941: 1 (M5+)19451947: 1 (M5+)1951: 1 (M5+)1952: 1 (M5+)1953: 2 (M5+)1954: 2 (M5+)19551959: 2 (M5+)1963: 1 (M5+)1965: 3 (M5+)19651966: 1 (M5+)1967: 2 (M4–5)1968: 1 (M4–5)1968: 3 (M5+)1969: 3 (M4–5)1969: 3 (M5+)1970: 4 (M5+)1971: 2 (M5+)1972: 5 (M5+)1973: 2 (M4–5)1973: 1 (M5+)1974: 3 (M5+)1975: 1 (M4–5)1975: 10 (M5+)19751976: 1 (M4–5)1976: 5 (M5+)1977: 11 (M4–5)1977: 14 (M5+)1978: 2 (M4–5)1978: 6 (M5+)1979: 3 (M5+)1980: 4 (M4–5)1980: 3 (M5+)1981: 5 (M4–5)1981: 5 (M5+)1982: 2 (M4–5)1982: 5 (M5+)1983: 4 (M4–5)1983: 11 (M5+)1984: 1 (M3–4)1984: 10 (M4–5)1984: 4 (M5+)1985: 1 (M3–4)1985: 10 (M4–5)1985: 7 (M5+)19851986: 4 (M4–5)1986: 4 (M5+)1987: 12 (M4–5)1987: 5 (M5+)1988: 2 (M3–4)1988: 15 (M4–5)1988: 6 (M5+)1989: 3 (M3–4)1989: 14 (M4–5)1989: 7 (M5+)1990: 9 (M4–5)1990: 2 (M5+)1991: 30 (M4–5)1991: 15 (M5+)1992: 11 (M4–5)1992: 10 (M5+)1993: 1 (M3–4)1993: 8 (M4–5)1993: 11 (M5+)1994: 1 (M3–4)1994: 14 (M4–5)1994: 12 (M5+)1995: 15 (M3–4)1995: 55 (M4–5)1995: 10 (M5+)19951996: 7 (M3–4)1996: 31 (M4–5)1997: 4 (M3–4)1997: 30 (M4–5)1997: 2 (M5+)1998: 4 (M3–4)1998: 22 (M4–5)1998: 5 (M5+)1999: 1 (M3–4)1999: 13 (M4–5)1999: 3 (M5+)2000: 1 (M3–4)2000: 8 (M4–5)2001: 25 (M4–5)2001: 10 (M5+)2002: 2 (M3–4)2002: 22 (M4–5)2002: 3 (M5+)2003: 6 (M<3)2003: 27 (M4–5)2003: 5 (M5+)2004: 25 (M<3)2004: 20 (M3–4)2004: 202 (M4–5)2004: 22 (M5+)2005: 3 (M<3)2005: 6 (M3–4)2005: 29 (M4–5)2005: 7 (M5+)20052006: 4 (M<3)2006: 5 (M3–4)2006: 30 (M4–5)2006: 2 (M5+)2007: 10 (M<3)2007: 4 (M3–4)2007: 37 (M4–5)2007: 5 (M5+)2008: 15 (M<3)2008: 12 (M3–4)2008: 66 (M4–5)2008: 11 (M5+)2009: 4 (M3–4)2009: 47 (M4–5)2009: 8 (M5+)2010: 5 (M3–4)2010: 24 (M4–5)2010: 4 (M5+)2011: 2 (M3–4)2011: 30 (M4–5)2011: 2 (M5+)2012: 1 (M3–4)2012: 34 (M4–5)2012: 3 (M5+)2013: 4 (M3–4)2013: 27 (M4–5)2013: 2 (M5+)2014: 9 (M3–4)2014: 38 (M4–5)2014: 1 (M5+)2015: 18 (M3–4)2015: 92 (M4–5)2015: 6 (M5+)20152016: 9 (M3–4)2016: 36 (M4–5)2016: 6 (M5+)2017: 5 (M3–4)2017: 33 (M4–5)2018: 3 (M<3)2018: 8 (M3–4)2018: 22 (M4–5)2019: 2 (M<3)2019: 16 (M3–4)2019: 41 (M4–5)2019: 2 (M5+)2020: 32 (M<3)2020: 37 (M3–4)2020: 26 (M4–5)2020: 2 (M5+)2021: 36 (M<3)2021: 55 (M3–4)2021: 30 (M4–5)2021: 3 (M5+)2022: 36 (M<3)2022: 70 (M3–4)2022: 49 (M4–5)2022: 3 (M5+)2023: 60 (M<3)2023: 90 (M3–4)2023: 46 (M4–5)2023: 5 (M5+)2024: 36 (M<3)2024: 57 (M3–4)2024: 29 (M4–5)2024: 1 (M5+)2025: 153 (M<3)2025: 133 (M3–4)2025: 57 (M4–5)2025: 3 (M5+)20252026: 245 (M<3)2026: 117 (M3–4)2026: 25 (M4–5)2026: 3 (M5+)
M<3M3–4M4–5M5+

Read this chart carefully. Rising columns do not mean earthquakes are becoming more frequent. The monitoring network improved over time: the smallest detectable earthquake in Türkiye was about M5.0 in 1966 and is M1.5 today. Earlier years look quiet because small events were not heard, not because they did not happen.

Largest earthquakes

Inclusion rule: the radius widens with magnitude (15 km up to M4, 150 km at M7 and above). This is not a measure of felt shaking or intensity.

MagnitudeDateDepthDistance
7.830.08.1917 04:07100 km296 km
7.511.11.2004 21:2617.7 km117 km
7.422.06.1982 04:18448.5 km176 km
7.424.11.1983 05:30191.4 km312 km
7.320.10.1938 02:1990 km311 km
7.329.12.2021 18:25177.6 km252 km
7.211.02.1969 22:16445 km246 km
7.214.02.1952 03:3825 km148 km
7.229.09.1905 11:5235 km207 km
7.027.08.1977 07:1224.6 km82 km
7.026.03.1930 07:1210 km122 km
6.925.02.1941 05:37180 km76 km
6.926.06.1953 05:4225 km188 km
6.925.06.1953 10:4525 km197 km
6.814.05.1995 11:3328 km85 km

Latest earthquakes

MagnitudeDateDepthDistance
3.210.10.2026 19:39164 km190 km
4.410.10.2026 04:4567.7 km176 km
3.110.10.2026 04:1783 km158 km
3.809.10.2026 04:0569 km167 km
3.930.09.2026 18:5110 km74 km
2.529.09.2026 23:4643 km169 km
4.929.09.2026 14:14153 km187 km
3.127.09.2026 02:5610 km140 km
2.724.09.2026 20:46146 km185 km
3.821.09.2026 06:4465 km164 km
3.316.09.2026 11:58162 km166 km
3.116.09.2026 03:2610 km163 km
3.011.09.2026 02:1683 km142 km
5.310.09.2026 18:4410 km231 km
3.610.09.2026 08:06136 km203 km
4.009.09.2026 17:4510 km195 km
2.909.09.2026 15:2310 km130 km
4.606.09.2026 11:15150.6 km194 km
3.403.09.2026 19:0178 km178 km
2.703.09.2026 18:2551 km192 km
4.131.08.2026 03:5810 km127 km
4.729.08.2026 09:1510 km173 km
2.829.08.2026 02:1210 km151 km
3.326.08.2026 00:5010 km194 km
3.724.08.2026 18:4336 km81 km
2.618.08.2026 14:2135 km94 km
2.818.08.2026 04:3167 km176 km
3.018.08.2026 00:1615 km105 km
2.618.08.2026 00:0581 km158 km
2.617.08.2026 01:3754 km149 km
2.817.08.2026 00:2110 km194 km
3.516.08.2026 19:5010 km125 km
3.315.08.2026 03:575 km79 km
3.314.08.2026 06:4159 km200 km
2.814.08.2026 05:5910 km72 km
2.914.08.2026 05:207 km81 km
3.514.08.2026 05:1617 km83 km
2.513.08.2026 00:56122 km173 km
2.511.08.2026 12:4425 km93 km
2.510.08.2026 17:0415 km56 km
2.610.08.2026 10:3487 km109 km
2.910.08.2026 07:226 km111 km
2.510.08.2026 02:4940 km38 km
2.809.08.2026 23:144 km54 km
2.609.08.2026 22:296 km47 km
2.509.08.2026 10:5270 km192 km
3.109.08.2026 04:2427 km166 km
2.709.08.2026 04:184 km49 km
2.709.08.2026 03:4441 km36 km
2.608.08.2026 19:4857 km195 km
2.508.08.2026 01:2186 km178 km
2.607.08.2026 23:0910 km203 km
2.607.08.2026 21:0910 km126 km
2.507.08.2026 18:4464 km183 km
2.507.08.2026 15:3173 km156 km
2.705.08.2026 16:3810 km29 km
2.504.08.2026 18:0351 km192 km
2.504.08.2026 05:5187 km166 km
2.903.08.2026 15:1823 km17 km
2.501.08.2026 16:4310 km165 km

Regions

Oe-Cusse Ambeno741Cova Lima370Bobonaro364Dili305Liquiçá275Ermera260Ainaro217Lautém208Aileu188Manufahi160

Method and sources

What this page counts
An earthquake appears here when its epicentre is within a magnitude-dependent distance of this place's border: 15 km up to M4, 30 km to M5, 60 km to M6, 100 km to M7, and 150 km at M7 and above. The rule exists because a large earthquake concerns neighbouring provinces too — the 17 August 1999 epicentre was in the Gulf of İzmit, on no province's land at all.
Location precision
Epicentre uncertainty is typically 1–10 km, and larger for older records. That is why this site breaks data down to districts but not to neighbourhoods or villages — the data does not support that distinction.
Magnitude scales
The catalogues use more than twelve magnitude scales (Mw, ML, mb, Md…) and they are not equivalent. Values are shown on the scale the source reported; they are not converted.
Deduplication
The same earthquake is published by several catalogues. Records within 20 seconds and 100 km whose magnitudes differ by no more than 1.2 are treated as one event; the primary record is chosen by catalogue priority.
Updates
Recent earthquakes are fetched from four sources every five minutes. The historical archive is rebuilt infrequently.
Sources
USGS ComCat · ISC Bulletin · AFAD · Kandilli / KOERI · EMSC/CSEM
Reporting an error
If you spot a wrong record, write to us; we verify against the source and correct it.