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Light earthquake 4.1 mag, 39 km ENE of Hualien City, Taiwan


Earthquake location 24.1688S, 121.9267WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, 39 kilometers (24 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 26.826 km (17 miles). The 4.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 17:58:34 / 5:58 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us6000rupb. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rupb. Global time and date of event 13/12/25 / 2025-12-13 17:58:34 / December 13, 2025 @ 5:58 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 121.9267 East, latitude 24.1688 North, depth = 26.826 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yilan, Hualian (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 39 km (24 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop).

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 39 km ENE of Hualien City, Taiwan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.9267° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.1688° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26.826 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 39 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 2025-12-13 17:58:34 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-13 18:28:50 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 53 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.303 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 us6000rupb Id of event.
Event Code 6000rupb An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rupb, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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