A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 44 kilometers (27 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. Exact location, longitude 122.0143° East, latitude 24.1074° North, depth = 22.217 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 22.217 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:55:03 / 12:55 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000r3h7. Unique identifier: us6000r3h7. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/08/25 / 2025-08-24 12:55:03 / August 24, 2025 @ 12:55 pm.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yilan, Hualian (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 44 km (27 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop). Nearby 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. In the past 24 hours, there have been seven, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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. 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: 44 km ENE of Hualien City, Taiwan.

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