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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Hualien City in Taiwan


Earthquake location 23.4528S, 122.0801WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan on Wednesday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 19.281 km (12 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 122.0801 East, latitude 23.4528 North, depth = 19.281 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/10/25 / 2025-10-08 03:33:52 / October 8, 2025 @ 3:33 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 03:33:52 / 3:33 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000rfiv. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rfiv.

Epicenter of the event was 76 km (47 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hualian.

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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: 75 km SE of Hualien City, Taiwan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.0801° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.4528° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.281 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 75 km SE 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 2025-10-08 03:33:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-10-08 03:50:22 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 45 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.722 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 84 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000rfiv Id of event.
Event Code 6000rfiv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rfiv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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