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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Yujing in Taiwan

Posted by admin on January 30, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 23.1786S, 120.4893WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Yujing in Taiwan on Tuesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us7000pa4x. Event ids that are associated: us7000pa4x. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:30:13 / 9:30 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/01/25 / 2025-01-21 21:30:13 / January 21, 2025 @ 9:30 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 120.4893 East, latitude 23.1786 North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Zhongxing New Village, Nantou, Taitung City (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 65 km (40 miles) from Kaohsiung (c. 1 519 700 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Tainan (c. 771 200 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Taitung City (c. 109 600 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Douliu (c. 104 700 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 6 km NNE of Yujing, Taiwan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.4893° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.1786° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 6 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 2025-01-21 21:30:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-30 23:49:31 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 46 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.177 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us7000pa4x Id of event.
Event Code 7000pa4x An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pa4x, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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