A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Yujing in Taiwan. Exact location, longitude 120.4836° East, latitude 23.0733° North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was picked up at 17:42:30 / 5:42 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pl9y. Id of event: us6000pl9y. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 20/01/25 / 2025-01-20 17:42:30 / January 20, 2025 @ 5:42 pm.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Zhongxing New Village, Nantou, Lugu. The epicenter was 54 km (33 miles) from Kaohsiung (c. 1 519 700 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Tainan (c. 771 200 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Taitung City (c. 109 600 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Douliu (c. 104 700 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop). Nearby 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 6 km SSE of Yujing, Taiwan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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