{"id":620836,"date":"2026-04-21T06:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T06:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/620836\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T06:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T06:41:09","slug":"earthquake-hits-off-indonesias-timor-island-geophysics-agency-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/620836\/","title":{"rendered":"Earthquake hits off Indonesia&#8217;s Timor island, geophysics agency says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A magnitude-6 earthquake has struck in the water off Indonesia&#8217;s Timor island, the country&#8217;s geophysics agency said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The epicentre was at a depth of 31 kilometres, the agency said, adding there was no tsunami risk from the quake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The quake hit at 11:17am local time on Tuesday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Its report said the exact magnitude, epicentre and depth may be revised within the next few hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Seismologists continue to review the data from the earthquake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Based on preliminary seismic data, the quake was probably felt by many people, according to tracking site VolcanoDiscovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A magnitude-6 earthquake has struck in the water off Indonesia&#8217;s Timor island, the country&#8217;s geophysics agency said. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,284342,44,101153,301064,301065,301063,41,39,42,40,9990,300579],"class_list":{"0":"post-620836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-indonesia-earthquake","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-quake","12":"tag-timor-earthquake","13":"tag-timor-earthquake-tsunami-warning","14":"tag-timor-island","15":"tag-top-news","16":"tag-top-stories","17":"tag-topnews","18":"tag-topstories","19":"tag-tsunami","20":"tag-tsunami-watch"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}