A light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 85 kilometers (53 miles) from Hengchun in Taiwan on Friday. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 120.2948 East, latitude 21.3597 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was picked up at 19:51:18 / 7:51 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000q731. Unique identifier: us6000q731. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 18/04/25 / 2025-04-18 19:51:18 / April 18, 2025 @ 7:51 pm.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hengchun. Event epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Hengchun (c. 31 300 pop). Nearby country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 85 km SSW of Hengchun, Taiwan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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