Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Donggang in Taiwan

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Donggang in Taiwan. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pmhf. Id of event: us6000pmhf. The epicenter was at a depth of 2.676 km (2 miles). The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:18:48 / 12:18 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/01/25 / 2025-01-27 00:18:48 / January 27, 2025 @ 12:18 am. Exact location of event, longitude 121.1193 East, latitude 22.6832 North, depth = 2.676 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Earthquake epicenter was 83 km (52 miles) from Kaohsiung (c. 1 519 700 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Tainan (c. 771 200 pop), 9 km (5 miles) from Taitung City (c. 109 600 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Hengchun (c. 31 300 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Yujing (c. 16 600 pop). Close country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Tainan, Hengchun, Yujing.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days fifteen, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 73 km ENE of Donggang, Taiwan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	121.1193° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	22.6832° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.676 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	73 km ENE of Donggang, 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 00:18:48	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-27 00:39:58	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	385	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	70	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.139	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.91 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	88	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	us6000pmhf	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pmhf	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pmhf,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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