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Moderate earthquake: M5.3 quake has struck near Yilan in Taiwan

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A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Yilan in Taiwan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 116.04 km (72 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us7000qra8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qra8. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/08/25 / 2025-08-27 13:10:59 / August 27, 2025 @ 1:10 pm. Exact location, longitude 121.913° East, latitude 24.8266° North, depth = 116.04 km. The temblor was picked up at 13:10:59 / 1:10 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hualian, Hsinchu, Taoyuan City. The epicenter was 46 km (28 miles) from Taipei (c. 7 871 900 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Banqiao (c. 543 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Hsinchu (c. 404 100 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Taoyuan City (c. 402 000 pop), 38 km (23 miles) from Keelung (c. 397 500 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 18 km (11 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 17 km ENE of Yilan, Taiwan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	121.913° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	24.8266° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	116.04 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17 km ENE of Yilan, Taiwan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-08-27 13:10:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-08-27 13:27:24	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	432	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	98	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.405	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.74 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	22	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000qra8	Id of event.
Event Code	7000qra8	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000qra8,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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