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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Lugu in Taiwan

Posted by admin on September 21, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 23.7642S, 120.906WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from Lugu in Taiwan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 30.206 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 21/09/25 / 2025-09-21 19:20:14 / September 21, 2025 @ 7:20 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was picked up at 19:20:14 / 7:20 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000qxqr. Id of event: us7000qxqr. Exact location, longitude 120.906° East, latitude 23.7642° North, depth = 30.206 km.

Earthquake epicenter was 48 km (30 miles) from Taichung (c. 1 040 700 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Douliu (c. 104 700 pop), 23 km (15 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yujing, Hualian, Taichung.

Each 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 15 km E of Lugu, Taiwan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.906° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.7642° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30.206 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 15 km E of Lugu, Taiwan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-09-21 19:20:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-09-21 20:16:38 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 298 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 47 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.05 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 78 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 us7000qxqr Id of event.
Event Code 7000qxqr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000qxqr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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