A 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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