Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 45 km ESE of Yilan, Taiwan

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Yilan in Taiwan. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 08/03/25 / 2025-03-08 19:03:08 / March 8, 2025 @ 7:03 pm UTC/GMT. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:03:08 / 7:03 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 122.1831° East, 24.627° North, depth 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000pzd8. Unique identifier: us6000pzd8.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Daxi, Hualian, Banqiao (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 81 km (50 miles) from Taipei (c. 7 871 900 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Banqiao (c. 543 300 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Keelung (c. 397 500 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 46 km (28 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Daxi (c. 84 500 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 one and in the last 365 days one hundred and sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 45 km ESE of Yilan, Taiwan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	122.1831° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	24.627° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	45 km ESE 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	2025-03-08 19:03:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-03-31 02:27:17	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	312	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	26	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.701	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.94 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	118	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	us6000pzd8	Id of event.
Event Code	6000pzd8	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000pzd8,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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