A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 75 kilometers (47 miles) from Yonakuni in Japan. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 122.5205 East, latitude 23.95 North, depth = 31.9 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 07/09/25 / 2025-09-07 11:29:11 / September 7, 2025 @ 11:29 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000qujy. Unique identifier: us7000qujy. The temblor was picked up at 11:29:11 / 11:29 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 31.9 km (20 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hualian. Nearby country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 75 km SW of Yonakuni, Japan.

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