Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Hualien City in Taiwan

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 39.766 km (25 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 122.1061 East, latitude 24.2442 North, depth = 39.766 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:04:14 / 2:04 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 18/10/25 / 2025-10-18 02:04:14 / October 18, 2025 @ 2:04 am UTC/GMT. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rhzq. Unique identifier: us6000rhzq.

Close country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 59 km (37 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yilan, Hualian (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes 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 one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days seventy-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 58 km ENE of Hualien City, Taiwan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	122.1061° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	24.2442° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	39.766 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	58 km ENE 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	2025-10-18 02:04:14	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-18 02:21:24	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	3.4	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	385	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	54	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.472	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	63	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	us6000rhzq	Id of event.
Event Code	6000rhzq	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000rhzq,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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