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Light earthquake: M4.2 quake has struck near Hualien City in Taiwan


Earthquake location 23.7531S, 121.4586WA light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. The epicenter was at a depth of 16.977 km (11 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000pl11. Id of event: us6000pl11. Exact location of event, depth 16.977 km, 121.4586° East, 23.7531° North. The 4.2-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:28:06 / 2:28 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 19/01/25 / 2025-01-19 02:28:06 / January 19, 2025 @ 2:28 am.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Douliu, Taichung, Nantou (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Taichung (c. 1 040 700 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Douliu (c. 104 700 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days seven, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 28 km SSW of Hualien City, Taiwan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.4586° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.7531° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.977 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28 km SSW of Hualien City, Taiwan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-01-19 02:28:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-01-30 02:27:14 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 23 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.388 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 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 us6000pl11 Id of event.
Event Code 6000pl11 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000pl11, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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