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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Hualien City in Taiwan


Earthquake location 23.5834S, 121.5983WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 43 kilometers (27 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan on Sunday. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/01/25 / 2025-01-12 12:12:28 / January 12, 2025 @ 12:12 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pltv. Id of event: us6000pltv. The temblor was picked up at 12:12:28 / 12:12 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 121.5983° East, 23.5834° North, depth 26.184 km. 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 26.184 km (16 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lugu, Puli, Hualian. Country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Event epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop).

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 nine and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 43 km S of Hualien City, Taiwan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.5983° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.5834° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26.184 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 43 km S of Hualien City, Taiwan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-01-12 12:12:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-26 12:07:34 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 298 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 28 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.336 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 85 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 us6000pltv Id of event.
Event Code 6000pltv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pltv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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