Light earthquake, 4.7 mag strikes near Hualien City in Taiwan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. Id of earthquake: us7000px8k. Event ids that are associated: us7000px8k. Global time and date of event 05/05/25 / 2025-05-05 11:15:44 / May 5, 2025 @ 11:15 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 11:15:44 / 11:15 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 121.6086 East, latitude 24.0143 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Taichung (c. 1 040 700 pop), 4 km (3 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop). Close country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nantou, Taichung, Zhongxing New Village (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days eleven and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-one 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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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. 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: 4 km N of Hualien City, Taiwan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	121.6086° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	24.0143° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4 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	2025-05-05 11:15:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-27 08:40:26	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	340	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	45	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.159	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.83 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	79	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	us7000px8k	Id of event.
Event Code	7000px8k	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000px8k,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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