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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 5 km NW of Yujing, Taiwan

Posted by admin on January 24, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 23.161S, 120.4274WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was reported 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Yujing in Taiwan on Friday. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:01:56 / 10:01 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/01/25 / 2025-01-24 22:01:56 / January 24, 2025 @ 10:01 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 120.4274 East, latitude 23.161 North, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000pm7g. Unique identifier: us6000pm7g. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquake epicenter was 62 km (38 miles) from Kaohsiung (c. 1 519 700 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Tainan (c. 771 200 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Taitung City (c. 109 600 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Douliu (c. 104 700 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Ma-kung (c. 56 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ma-kung, Zhongxing New Village, Nantou.

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days nine and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 5 km NW of Yujing, Taiwan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.4274° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.161° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5 km NW 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 2025-01-24 22:01:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-24 22:42:12 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 2.4 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 370 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 66 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.232 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.9 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 72 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 us6000pm7g Id of event.
Event Code 6000pm7g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pm7g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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