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Earthquakes in Taiwan: live activity, map and history

Explore recent and historical earthquakes in Taiwan, with live USGS-derived data, magnitude and depth statistics, regional hubs and an interactive globe.

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Events1528
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30 days3
12 months41
LargestM 7.4
avg_depth24.4 km
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Taiwan

A high index means recent activity is high relative to the selected historical baseline. It does not mean that a larger earthquake is about to occur.

Quake Pulse Activity Index37/100Normal
Current 30 days3
Historical monthly median4.0
Historical percentileP37
M5+ in 30 days1
M6+ in 30 days0
Activity trendbelow the historical median (-25%)
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A compact comparison of recent activity using pre-calculated periods.

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Last 30 days3M4.5+ 2 · M6+ 0Max M 4.6
Last 365 days41M4.5+ 35 · M6+ 2Max M 6.6
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Recent activity vs baseline

Counts describe detected earthquakes and are not a forecast or hazard assessment.

M4.5+ · 30d2
Monthly reference2.9
Relative activity×0.7
Historical maximumM 7.4

Strongest in 30 days : M 4.6 · 36 km SE of Hualien City, Taiwan

Recent earthquakes — Taiwan

30 days · Times shown in UTC.

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Seismic activity

Taiwan · 30 days

Magnitude distribution

Taiwan · 30 days

Country activity: Taiwan

Quake Pulse groups events assigned to Taiwan from coordinate-based country boundaries, with a cautious text fallback for offshore events. The page combines recent activity with the historical catalogue so a short-lived sequence can be read in context.

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Reference localities

Locality hubs are inferred from recurring USGS reference-place descriptions.

Hualien City699 USGS referencesHengchun336 USGS referencesYilan140 USGS referencesYujing136 USGS referencesJiufen36 USGS referencesDonggang34 USGS referencesPuli33 USGS referencesLugu21 USGS referencesPizitou10 USGS referencesKaohsiung8 USGS referencesMagong6 USGS referencesTainan5 USGS referencesTaichung4 USGS referencesHsinchu3 USGS referencesPinglin1 USGS referencesYongkang1 USGS references

Recent local earthquakes

Times shown in UTC.

MagnitudeLocationDepthTime
M 4.636 km SE of Hualien City, Taiwan19.0 km2026-09-28 18:20:44 UTCView event →
M 4.6120 km NE of Hengchun, Taiwan10.0 km2026-09-13 22:44:41 UTCView event →
M 4.246 km SSW of Hualien City, Taiwan12.2 km2026-09-13 19:21:35 UTCView event →
M 4.598 km ENE of Donggang, Taiwan33.2 km2026-09-06 16:37:01 UTCView event →
M 4.3116 km NE of Hengchun, Taiwan10.0 km2026-09-04 09:10:59 UTCView event →
M 4.477 km SE of Hengchun, Taiwan35.0 km2026-09-02 17:32:46 UTCView event →
M 4.439 km W of Hengchun, Taiwan12.1 km2026-08-28 02:20:55 UTCView event →
M 4.6106 km ESE of Yujing, Taiwan42.1 km2026-08-26 21:47:20 UTCView event →
M 5.5108 km NE of Hengchun, Taiwan14.6 km2026-08-25 07:00:10 UTCView event →
M 4.449 km SE of Yilan, Taiwan38.3 km2026-08-22 03:40:14 UTCView event →
M 4.962 km ESE of Yilan, Taiwan65.2 km2026-08-15 11:30:15 UTCView event →
M 4.411 km SW of Hengchun, Taiwan15.8 km2026-08-12 19:54:21 UTCView event →
M 4.598 km S of Hualien City, Taiwan10.0 km2026-07-30 16:58:34 UTCView event →
M 4.510 km NE of Yujing, Taiwan22.8 km2026-07-27 02:14:50 UTCView event →
M 4.79 km ESE of Pinglin, Taiwan96.0 km2026-07-26 12:36:17 UTCView event →
M 4.58 km ESE of Hualien City, Taiwan20.6 km2026-05-13 10:43:29 UTCView event →
M 5.181 km S of Hualien City, Taiwan23.2 km2026-05-12 06:53:32 UTCView event →
M 5.832 km ENE of Yilan, Taiwan103.0 km2026-05-01 12:39:55 UTCView event →
M 4.68 km ESE of Hualien City, Taiwan22.1 km2026-04-22 17:26:12 UTCView event →
M 5.24 km NNE of Hualien City, Taiwan36.9 km2026-04-04 17:14:59 UTCView event →
M 4.921 km SSE of Hualien City, Taiwan27.7 km2026-03-20 13:32:41 UTCView event →
M 4.856 km SSE of Yilan, Taiwan32.1 km2026-03-15 08:14:56 UTCView event →
M 5.128 km S of Hualien City, Taiwan30.3 km2026-03-12 12:14:13 UTCView event →
M 4.88 km N of Yujing, Taiwan10.0 km2026-03-03 11:52:48 UTCView event →
M 4.719 km SE of Yilan, Taiwan72.8 km2026-02-24 04:37:15 UTCView event →
M 5.3186 km SSW of Hengchun, Taiwan7.1 km2026-02-11 22:27:57 UTCView event →
M 4.515 km S of Hengchun, Taiwan10.0 km2026-01-26 18:48:38 UTCView event →
M 4.758 km SE of Hengchun, Taiwan10.0 km2026-01-25 10:49:42 UTCView event →
M 4.643 km NE of Hualien City, Taiwan7.2 km2026-01-18 08:47:46 UTCView event →
M 4.554 km SE of Hualien City, Taiwan19.8 km2026-01-16 08:49:01 UTCView event →
M 4.624 km ESE of Yilan, Taiwan73.9 km2026-01-12 13:31:49 UTCView event →
M 6.629 km ESE of Yilan, Taiwan63.0 km2025-12-27 15:05:55 UTCView event →
M 6.02025 Taitung, Taiwan Earthquake8.0 km2025-12-24 09:47:06 UTCView event →
M 4.620 km ENE of Hualien City, Taiwan32.2 km2025-12-18 11:32:50 UTCView event →
M 4.57 km E of Yujing, Taiwan7.0 km2025-12-11 14:49:01 UTCView event →
M 5.221 km SE of Hualien City, Taiwan10.0 km2025-12-08 11:24:54 UTCView event →
M 4.525 km ENE of Hualien City, Taiwan15.0 km2025-11-19 12:38:56 UTCView event →
M 4.626 km ENE of Hualien City, Taiwan13.3 km2025-11-19 12:25:13 UTCView event →
M 4.744 km SE of Jiufen, Taiwan10.0 km2025-11-14 23:56:25 UTCView event →
M 5.121 km E of Yujing, Taiwan10.0 km2025-11-10 05:00:48 UTCView event →
M 4.860 km ENE of Hualien City, Taiwan40.0 km2025-10-18 02:04:14 UTCView event →
M 5.14 km SSW of Hualien City, Taiwan10.0 km2025-10-07 23:52:12 UTCView event →
M 4.515 km E of Lugu, Taiwan28.9 km2025-09-21 19:20:14 UTCView event →
M 4.66 km E of Hualien City, Taiwan20.0 km2025-09-18 21:21:40 UTCView event →
M 5.317 km ENE of Yilan, Taiwan114.9 km2025-08-27 13:10:59 UTCView event →
M 4.539 km ENE of Hualien City, Taiwan38.1 km2025-08-24 12:55:04 UTCView event →
M 4.75 km NW of Yujing, Taiwan10.0 km2025-08-22 06:06:14 UTCView event →
M 4.619 km ENE of Yujing, Taiwan21.2 km2025-08-21 08:37:47 UTCView event →
M 4.615 km E of Hualien City, Taiwan28.4 km2025-08-19 01:26:07 UTCView event →
M 5.1136 km SW of Hengchun, Taiwan10.0 km2025-08-16 22:51:28 UTCView event →
M 4.628 km S of Hualien City, Taiwan12.6 km2025-08-10 06:03:34 UTCView event →
M 4.824 km SSW of Hualien City, Taiwan10.0 km2025-08-01 23:48:31 UTCView event →
M 4.942 km SW of Hualien City, Taiwan0.0 km2025-07-21 09:53:59 UTCView event →
M 4.842 km SE of Hengchun, Taiwan10.0 km2025-07-15 13:58:17 UTCView event →
M 4.531 km ESE of Hualien City, Taiwan15.6 km2025-07-04 23:35:38 UTCView event →
M 4.530 km ESE of Hualien City, Taiwan17.2 km2025-07-04 23:12:39 UTCView event →
M 4.988 km SW of Donggang, Taiwan10.0 km2025-06-19 20:18:37 UTCView event →
M 4.6106 km SW of Donggang, Taiwan10.0 km2025-06-16 10:30:56 UTCView event →
M 5.967 km S of Hualien City, Taiwan29.3 km2025-06-11 11:00:28 UTCView event →
M 4.73 km N of Hualien City, Taiwan19.2 km2025-05-05 11:15:45 UTCView event →
M 5.637 km ESE of Hualien City, Taiwan27.0 km2025-05-05 10:53:27 UTCView event →
M 4.643 km ESE of Hualien City, Taiwan10.0 km2025-05-05 10:27:56 UTCView event →
M 5.142 km E of Hualien City, Taiwan10.0 km2025-05-05 10:09:59 UTCView event →
M 5.023 km SSE of Yilan, Taiwan69.0 km2025-04-09 01:53:25 UTCView event →
M 4.78 km W of Yujing, Taiwan10.0 km2025-04-03 03:47:00 UTCView event →
M 4.69 km SSE of Hualien City, Taiwan34.0 km2025-03-25 01:40:47 UTCView event →
M 5.297 km S of Hualien City, Taiwan14.7 km2025-03-13 05:09:38 UTCView event →
M 4.545 km ESE of Yilan, Taiwan10.0 km2025-03-08 19:03:08 UTCView event →
M 4.74 km ENE of Yujing, Taiwan17.7 km2025-03-05 13:27:39 UTCView event →
M 4.748 km SW of Hengchun, Taiwan10.0 km2025-02-21 05:33:44 UTCView event →
M 4.511 km NE of Yujing, Taiwan10.0 km2025-02-07 16:46:56 UTCView event →
M 5.012 km ENE of Yujing, Taiwan10.0 km2025-01-30 07:16:17 UTCView event →
M 5.112 km ENE of Yujing, Taiwan10.0 km2025-01-30 02:11:53 UTCView event →
M 4.851 km SW of Hengchun, Taiwan10.5 km2025-01-27 01:48:51 UTCView event →
M 5.071 km ENE of Donggang, Taiwan10.0 km2025-01-27 00:18:49 UTCView event →
M 5.22 km SW of Yujing, Taiwan10.0 km2025-01-25 23:38:52 UTCView event →
M 4.731 km NE of Donggang, Taiwan19.7 km2025-01-25 16:10:50 UTCView event →
M 4.515 km N of Yujing, Taiwan10.0 km2025-01-25 13:00:31 UTCView event →
M 5.114 km NNW of Yujing, Taiwan10.0 km2025-01-25 11:49:17 UTCView event →
M 4.58 km NW of Yujing, Taiwan10.0 km2025-01-24 22:01:56 UTCView event →
M 4.811 km SSW of Yujing, Taiwan11.0 km2025-01-24 11:18:40 UTCView event →
M 4.777 km E of Hengchun, Taiwan10.0 km2025-01-22 08:11:42 UTCView event →
M 4.518 km NE of Yujing, Taiwan13.1 km2025-01-22 00:14:16 UTCView event →
M 5.171 km SSE of Hengchun, Taiwan11.3 km2025-01-21 18:48:21 UTCView event →
M 4.83 km NNE of Yujing, Taiwan10.9 km2025-01-20 17:42:31 UTCView event →
M 4.67 km NNW of Yujing, Taiwan10.0 km2025-01-20 16:56:56 UTCView event →
M 4.63 km NNW of Yujing, Taiwan10.0 km2025-01-20 16:29:22 UTCView event →
M 5.12 km WNW of Yujing, Taiwan10.0 km2025-01-20 16:26:24 UTCView event →
M 6.010 km NE of Yujing, Taiwan16.0 km2025-01-20 16:17:26 UTCView event →
M 4.624 km E of Pizitou, Taiwan24.7 km2024-12-29 19:51:36 UTCView event →
M 4.721 km ESE of Hualien City, Taiwan22.8 km2024-12-26 08:08:50 UTCView event →
M 4.968 km E of Hualien City, Taiwan16.3 km2024-12-07 07:48:28 UTCView event →
M 4.613 km NE of Hualien City, Taiwan46.0 km2024-11-27 15:32:24 UTCView event →
M 4.911 km NNW of Yongkang, Taiwan10.0 km2024-11-22 12:40:19 UTCView event →
M 4.615 km SSE of Hualien City, Taiwan27.5 km2024-11-14 02:38:16 UTCView event →
M 5.052 km S of Hualien City, Taiwan25.8 km2024-11-06 17:19:38 UTCView event →
M 4.998 km SSE of Hengchun, Taiwan27.9 km2024-11-02 06:27:33 UTCView event →
M 4.850 km S of Hualien City, Taiwan14.5 km2024-10-31 16:18:16 UTCView event →
M 4.75 km E of Hualien City, Taiwan31.2 km2024-10-27 10:21:45 UTCView event →
M 4.566 km E of Hengchun, Taiwan10.0 km2024-10-26 22:16:53 UTCView event →
M 4.575 km E of Hengchun, Taiwan10.0 km2024-10-22 22:02:10 UTCView event →
M 4.87 km NE of Hualien City, Taiwan35.0 km2024-10-16 13:58:21 UTCView event →
M 4.827 km NNE of Hualien City, Taiwan31.6 km2024-09-21 10:51:09 UTCView event →
M 4.518 km SSE of Hualien City, Taiwan45.4 km2024-09-11 13:41:10 UTCView event →
M 4.914 km ESE of Hualien City, Taiwan25.0 km2024-09-07 05:16:51 UTCView event →
M 5.014 km SSE of Hualien City, Taiwan37.6 km2024-09-02 08:26:25 UTCView event →
M 4.521 km SSE of Hualien City, Taiwan24.5 km2024-08-31 18:21:42 UTCView event →
M 4.637 km E of Hengchun, Taiwan31.6 km2024-08-22 11:14:54 UTCView event →
M 4.744 km SSE of Yilan, Taiwan10.0 km2024-08-17 13:10:11 UTCView event →
M 4.739 km SE of Hualien City, Taiwan10.0 km2024-08-15 23:40:28 UTCView event →
M 6.130 km SSE of Hualien City, Taiwan14.0 km2024-08-15 23:35:53 UTCView event →
M 4.540 km SSE of Yilan, Taiwan12.0 km2024-08-15 09:33:04 UTCView event →
M 5.446 km SSE of Yilan, Taiwan11.5 km2024-08-15 09:06:45 UTCView event →
M 4.755 km SE of Hengchun, Taiwan33.9 km2024-07-29 14:12:06 UTCView event →
M 4.950 km ESE of Hengchun, Taiwan42.8 km2024-07-27 11:21:47 UTCView event →
M 4.857 km NE of Jiufen, Taiwan244.1 km2024-06-29 06:39:04 UTCView event →
M 4.891 km SE of Hualien City, Taiwan10.0 km2024-06-28 08:42:35 UTCView event →
M 5.021 km S of Hualien City, Taiwan24.3 km2024-06-23 14:27:09 UTCView event →
M 4.524 km SSE of Hualien City, Taiwan10.0 km2024-06-02 01:28:36 UTCView event →
M 5.029 km S of Hualien City, Taiwan10.0 km2024-06-02 01:27:23 UTCView event →
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