A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. Exact location of event, longitude 121.5042 East, latitude 23.7842 North, depth = 11.395 km. Unique identifier: us6000pjg8. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000pjg8. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 20:27:09 / 8:27 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 11.395 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 11/01/25 / 2025-01-11 20:27:09 / January 11, 2025 @ 8:27 pm.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Taichung, Nantou, Zhongxing New Village (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Taichung (c. 1 040 700 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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