Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Yujing in Taiwan

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 74 kilometers (46 miles) from Yujing in Taiwan on Monday. The temblor was reported at 01:25:54 / 1:25 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000pmhr. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000pmhr. Exact time and date of earthquake 27/01/25 / 2025-01-27 01:25:54 / January 27, 2025 @ 1:25 am UTC/GMT. 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 8.931 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude 121.1021° East, latitude 22.802° North, depth = 8.931 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 83 km (52 miles) from Kaohsiung (c. 1 519 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Tainan (c. 771 200 pop), 7 km (4 miles) from Taitung City (c. 109 600 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Yujing (c. 16 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Tainan, Kaohsiung, Yujing. Close country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days sixteen, in the past 30 days twenty-one and in the last 365 days seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 74 km ESE of Yujing, Taiwan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	121.1021° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	22.802° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.931 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	74 km ESE 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	2025-01-27 01:25:54	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-27 01:38:09	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	31	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.026	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	86	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	us6000pmhr	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pmhr	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pmhr,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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