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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag strikes near Hualien City in Taiwan


Earthquake location 23.4513S, 121.4769WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was reported 59 kilometers (37 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan on Saturday. Global time and date of event 06/12/25 / 2025-12-06 22:48:01 / December 6, 2025 @ 10:48 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rszd. Id of event: us6000rszd. The 4.1-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:48:01 / 10:48 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 30.693 km (19 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.4769 East, latitude 23.4513 North, depth = 30.693 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Taitung City, Lugu, Puli (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 60 km (37 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Taitung City (c. 109 600 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop). Close country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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: 59 km SSW of Hualien City, Taiwan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.4769° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.4513° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 30.693 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 59 km SSW 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 2025-12-06 22:48:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-12-30 03:37:08 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 30 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.175 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.22 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 93 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 us6000rszd Id of event.
Event Code 6000rszd An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rszd, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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