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Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag was detected near Yujing in Taiwan

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A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 6 kilometers (4 miles) from Yujing in Taiwan. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 120.3973° East, 23.1341° North. The temblor was detected at 06:06:13 / 6:06 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000r2zd. Id of event: us6000r2zd. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/08/25 / 2025-08-22 06:06:13 / August 22, 2025 @ 6:06 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 58 km (36 miles) from Kaohsiung (c. 1 519 700 pop), 25 km (15 miles) from Tainan (c. 771 200 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Taitung City (c. 109 600 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Douliu (c. 104 700 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Ma-kung (c. 56 400 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Zhongxing New Village, Ma-kung, Nantou. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fourty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	120.3973° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	23.1341° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	6 km W 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	2025-08-22 06:06:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-08-22 06:24:36	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.9	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	417	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	53	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.27	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	57	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	us6000r2zd	Id of event.
Event Code	6000r2zd	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000r2zd,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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