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Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Lugu in Taiwan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was reported 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Lugu in Taiwan on Thursday. Exact location of earthquake, 120.8295° East, 23.8265° North, depth 29.898 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 29.898 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 23/10/25 / 2025-10-23 12:28:06 / October 23, 2025 @ 12:28 pm. The temblor was detected at 12:28:06 / 12:28 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000riv8. Id of event: us6000riv8.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yujing, Hualian, Taichung. Epicenter of the earthquake was 39 km (24 miles) from Taichung (c. 1 040 700 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 20 km (12 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Douliu (c. 104 700 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 11 km NE of Lugu, Taiwan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	120.8295° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	23.8265° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	29.898 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11 km NE 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	2025-10-23 12:28:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-10-23 13:01:44	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	271	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	38	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.12	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.68 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	87	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	us6000riv8	Id of event.
Event Code	6000riv8	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000riv8,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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