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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Yilan in Taiwan


Earthquake location 24.4621S, 121.5642WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Yilan in Taiwan. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/01/25 / 2025-01-06 10:46:01 / January 6, 2025 @ 10:46 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 121.5642° East, latitude 24.4621° North, depth = 22.983 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 10:46:01 / 10:46 am (local time epicenter). Event id: us6000pknc. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pknc. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 22.983 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Event epicenter was 65 km (41 miles) from Taipei (c. 7 871 900 pop), 62 km (39 miles) from Banqiao (c. 543 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Hsinchu (c. 404 100 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Taoyuan City (c. 402 000 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Keelung (c. 397 500 pop), 54 km (34 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Puli, Keelung, Hsinchu (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 six, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days two hundred and twenty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 37 km SSW of Yilan, Taiwan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.5642° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.4621° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.983 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37 km SSW of Yilan, Taiwan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-01-06 10:46:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-30 07:27:45 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 0.268 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 64 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 us6000pknc Id of event.
Event Code 6000pknc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pknc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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