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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag has occurred near Yujing in Taiwan


Earthquake location 23.1961S, 120.4866WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Yujing in Taiwan. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:23:16 / 11:23 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 27/01/25 / 2025-01-27 23:23:16 / January 27, 2025 @ 11:23 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 14.832 km, 120.4866° East, 23.1961° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000pmp4. Unique identifier: us6000pmp4. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 14.832 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Kaohsiung (c. 1 519 700 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Tainan (c. 771 200 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Taitung City (c. 109 600 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Douliu (c. 104 700 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Zhongxing New Village, Taitung City, Nantou (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days eighteen and in the last 365 days twenty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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: 8 km NNE of Yujing, Taiwan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.4866° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.1961° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 14.832 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 8 km NNE 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 23:23:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-28 03:53:15 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 271 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 18 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.168 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 142 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 us6000pmp4 Id of event.
Event Code 6000pmp4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pmp4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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