Light earthquake, 4 mag has occurred near Pizitou in Taiwan

A light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Pizitou in Taiwan. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/05/25 / 2025-05-14 02:48:28 / May 14, 2025 @ 2:48 am. Exact location of earthquake, 120.5184° East, 23.3097° North, depth 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pz3k. Id of event: us7000pz3k. The temblor was reported at 02:48:28 / 2:48 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Taitung City, Puli, Kaohsiung. Country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Event epicenter was 80 km (50 miles) from Kaohsiung (c. 1 519 700 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Tainan (c. 771 200 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Taitung City (c. 109 600 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 45 km (28 miles) from Douliu (c. 104 700 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. 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 fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home 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: 20 km SSE of Pizitou, Taiwan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	120.5184° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	23.3097° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	20 km SSE of Pizitou, Taiwan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-05-14 02:48:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-14 03:11:47	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	246	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	34	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.103	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.76 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	61	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	us7000pz3k	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pz3k	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pz3k,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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