A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Yujing in Taiwan. The temblor was picked up at 20:05:58 / 8:05 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 20/01/25 / 2025-01-20 20:05:58 / January 20, 2025 @ 8:05 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us6000plb9. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000plb9. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 120.4739 East, latitude 23.2231 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ma-kung, Puli, Taitung City (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Kaohsiung (c. 1 519 700 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Tainan (c. 771 200 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Taitung City (c. 109 600 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Douliu (c. 104 700 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Ma-kung (c. 56 400 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fourteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 10 km N of Yujing, Taiwan.
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