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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag strikes near Yujing in Taiwan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Yujing in Taiwan on Sunday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 120.4153 East, latitude 23.2335 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 26/01/25 / 2025-01-26 18:06:12 / January 26, 2025 @ 6:06 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 18:06:12 / 6:06 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Id of earthquake: us6000pmgb. Event ids that are associated: us6000pmgb.

Nearby country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ma-kung, Taitung City, Zhongxing New Village (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Kaohsiung (c. 1 519 700 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Tainan (c. 771 200 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Taitung City (c. 109 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Douliu (c. 104 700 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Ma-kung (c. 56 400 pop).

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 12 km NNW of Yujing, Taiwan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	120.4153° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	23.2335° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12 km NNW 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	2025-01-26 18:06:12	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-26 18:54:46	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	272	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	33	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.208	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.69 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	79	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mwr	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us6000pmgb	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pmgb	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pmgb,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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