Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 35 km S of Yilan, Taiwan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Yilan in Taiwan on Tuesday. Exact location of event, depth 70.844 km, 121.7646° East, 24.4343° North. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 70.844 km (44 miles). Event id: us7000pb76. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pb76. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 08:19:18 / 8:19 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 04/02/25 / 2025-02-04 08:19:18 / February 4, 2025 @ 8:19 am UTC/GMT.

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 72 km (45 miles) from Taipei (c. 7 871 900 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Banqiao (c. 543 300 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Hsinchu (c. 404 100 pop), 78 km (49 miles) from Taoyuan City (c. 402 000 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Keelung (c. 397 500 pop), 53 km (33 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hsinchu, Taoyuan City, Keelung (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days two hundred and thirty-five 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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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: 35 km S of Yilan, Taiwan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	121.7646° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	24.4343° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	70.844 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	35 km S 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	2025-02-04 08:19:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-02-24 08:35:28	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	284	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	52	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.302	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.03 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	58	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	us7000pb76	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pb76	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pb76,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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