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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag has occurred near Hualien City in Taiwan

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Earthquake location 24.1039S, 121.6213WA light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 14 kilometers (9 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35.761 km (22 miles). Event id: us6000q3hm. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000q3hm. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 02/04/25 / 2025-04-02 18:01:33 / April 2, 2025 @ 6:01 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.6213 East, latitude 24.1039 North, depth = 35.761 km. The temblor was picked up at 18:01:33 / 6:01 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Daxi, Yilan, Puli (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 14 km (9 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Daxi (c. 84 500 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 14 km N of Hualien City, Taiwan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.6213° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.1039° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.761 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 14 km N 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 2025-04-02 18:01:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-04-02 19:07:12 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 64 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.074 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 37 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000q3hm Id of event.
Event Code 6000q3hm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000q3hm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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