A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Yujing in Taiwan on Monday. Exact location, longitude 120.4142° East, latitude 23.2302° North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us7000pbhv. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000pbhv. The temblor was detected at 14:59:54 / 2:59 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 27/01/25 / 2025-01-27 14:59:54 / January 27, 2025 @ 2:59 pm UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
Epicenter of the event was 69 km (43 miles) from Kaohsiung (c. 1 519 700 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Tainan (c. 771 200 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Taitung City (c. 109 600 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Douliu (c. 104 700 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Ma-kung (c. 56 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ma-kung, Taitung City, Zhongxing New Village (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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been nine, in the last 10 days twenty-four, in the past 30 days twenty-five and in the last 365 days thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.
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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: 12 km NNW of Yujing, Taiwan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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