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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 7 km NNW of Yujing, Taiwan

Posted by admin on February 2, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 23.1837S, 120.4274WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Yujing in Taiwan. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000pa2g. Unique identifier: us7000pa2g. The temblor was reported at 16:56:56 / 4:56 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 120.4274° East, latitude 23.1837° North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 20/01/25 / 2025-01-20 16:56:56 / January 20, 2025 @ 4:56 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 64 km (40 miles) from Kaohsiung (c. 1 519 700 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Tainan (c. 771 200 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Taitung City (c. 109 600 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Douliu (c. 104 700 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Ma-kung (c. 56 400 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ma-kung, Zhongxing New Village, Taitung City (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-three, in the last 10 days twenty-three, in the past 30 days twenty-four and in the last 365 days thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every 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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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 7 km NNW of Yujing, Taiwan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.4274° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.1837° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7 km NNW of Yujing, Taiwan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-01-20 16:56:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-02-02 17:05:47 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 52 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.219 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 87 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 us7000pa2g Id of event.
Event Code 7000pa2g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000pa2g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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