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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Hualien City in Taiwan

Posted by admin on December 21, 2025 0 Comments

Earthquake location 23.7708S, 122.4699WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 91 kilometers (57 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location, longitude 122.4699° East, latitude 23.7708° North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 10:00:41 / 10:00 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 21/12/25 / 2025-12-21 10:00:41 / December 21, 2025 @ 10:00 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000rwbe. Unique identifier: us6000rwbe. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hualian (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 91 km (57 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 seventy 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.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 91 km ESE of Hualien City, Taiwan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.4699° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.7708° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 91 km ESE 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 2025-12-21 10:00:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-21 12:41:22 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 23 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.851 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.56 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 96 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 us6000rwbe Id of event.
Event Code 6000rwbe An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rwbe, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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