Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Hualien City in Taiwan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was reported 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan on Tuesday. Id of earthquake: us7000pmel. Event ids that are associated: us7000pmel. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/03/25 / 2025-03-25 01:40:47 / March 25, 2025 @ 1:40 am. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.6002 East, latitude 23.8779 North, depth = 32.513 km. The temblor was picked up at 01:40:47 / 1:40 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 32.513 km (20 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 98 km (61 miles) from Taichung (c. 1 040 700 pop), 11 km (7 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Taichung, Nantou, Zhongxing New Village.

In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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. 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: 10 km S of Hualien City, Taiwan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	121.6002° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	23.8779° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	32.513 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	10 km S 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	2025-03-25 01:40:47	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-04-07 02:44:02	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	326	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	101	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.294	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.61 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	70	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	us7000pmel	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pmel	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pmel,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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