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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near Yujing in Taiwan

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A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported 3 kilometers (2 miles) from Yujing in Taiwan on Monday. Exact location of earthquake, 120.4299° East, 23.1189° North, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was detected at 16:26:24 / 4:26 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pl8l. Id of event: us6000pl8l. Global time and date of event 20/01/25 / 2025-01-20 16:26:24 / January 20, 2025 @ 4:26 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ma-kung, Zhongxing New Village, Nantou (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 57 km (36 miles) from Kaohsiung (c. 1 519 700 pop), 26 km (16 miles) from Tainan (c. 771 200 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Taitung City (c. 109 600 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Douliu (c. 104 700 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Ma-kung (c. 56 400 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 3 km WSW of Yujing, Taiwan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	120.4299° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	23.1189° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	3 km WSW of Yujing, Taiwan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-01-20 16:26:24	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-20 16:51:51	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	3	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	401	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	91	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.258	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.65 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	103	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000pl8l	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pl8l	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pl8l,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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