Earthquakes in East Timor are frequent but rarely cause damage. The earthquakes occur due to a convergent boundary between the Indo-Australian Plate and the Eurasian Plate. [1] Earthquakes near East Timor will also be listed.
Date | Region | Mag. | MMI | Deaths | Injuries | Comments | Ref | |||
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2021-12-29 | Maluku, Indonesia | 7.3 Mw | VII | Seven houses destroyed in East Timor. | [2] | |||||
2021-12-16 | Maluku, Indonesia | 5.6 Mw | VI | Minor damage | [3] | |||||
2021-12-11 | Maluku, Indonesia | 5.4 Mw | VI | Minor damage | [4] | |||||
2015-11-04 | Alor, Indonesia | 6.5 Mw | VII | Minor damage | [5] | |||||
2004-11-11 | Alor, Indonesia | 7.5 Mw | VIII | 34 | 400 | Severe damage | [6] | |||
2004-04-23 | Timor | 6.7 Mw | V | Minor damage in Kupang, Indonesia | [7] | |||||
1995-05-14 | Timor | 6.9 Mw | VIII | 11 | Minor damage/tsunami | [8] | ||||
1991-07-04 | Alor, Indonesia | 6.9 Mw | VII | 23 | 181 | Severe damage | [9] | |||
1989-07-14 | Alor, Indonesia | 6.7 Mw | VII | 7 | Minor damage | [10] | ||||
1987-11-26 | Alor, Indonesia | 6.7 Mw | VII | 37 | 108 | Moderate damage | [11] | |||
1983-11-24 | Maluku, Indonesia | 7.3 Mw | VI | Felt as far as Australia. | [12] | |||||
1966-06-22 | Flores Sea | 7.0 Mw | III | Intermediate depth | [13] | |||||
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Earthquakes are caused by movements within the Earth's crust and uppermost mantle. They range from events too weak to be detectable except by sensitive instrumentation, to sudden and violent events lasting many minutes which have caused some of the greatest disasters in human history. Below, earthquakes are listed by period, region or country, year, magnitude, cost, fatalities and number of scientific studies.
The Indonesian island of Sumatra is located in a highly seismic area of the world. In addition to the subduction zone off the west coast of the island, Sumatra also has a large strike-slip fault, the Great Sumatran Fault also known as Semangko Fault, running the entire length of the island. This fault zone accommodates most of the strike-slip motion associated with the oblique convergence between the Indo-Australian and Eurasian plates. The fault ends in the north just below the city of Banda Aceh, which was devastated in the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. After the December 2004 earthquake, pressure on the Great Sumatran Fault has increased tremendously, especially in the north.
Events in the year 2021 in East Timor.