Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Yujing in Taiwan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 106 kilometers (66 miles) from Yujing in Taiwan. 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: us6000rcbq. Id of event: us6000rcbq. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 02:05:44 / 2:05 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 29/08/25 / 2025-08-29 02:05:44 / August 29, 2025 @ 2:05 am. Exact location of earthquake, 121.4521° East, 22.8473° North, depth 10 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taitung City (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 33 km (21 miles) from Taitung City (c. 109 600 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days sixty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Every 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.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 106 km ESE of Yujing, Taiwan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	121.4521° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	22.8473° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	106 km ESE 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	2025-08-29 02:05:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-09-23 21:34:38	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	259	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	17	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.345	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.57 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	142	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	us6000rcbq	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rcbq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rcbq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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