Taitung

Earthquakes near Taitung, 2017–2026

From 2017 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 188 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more within 100 km of Taitung, or 200 km for magnitude 7 and above. The strongest was a magnitude 7.4 on April 2, 2024 (15 km S of Hualien City, Taiwan).

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The last 30 days · as of

USGS recorded no earthquake of magnitude 4.5 or more within 100 km of Taitung in the last 30 days.

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What the record holds

It was also the deadliest: NOAA records 18 deaths for it. 4 earthquakes here in these years are on NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes. NOAA records deaths in 2 of the events here, 19 in all. 2022 had the most magnitude 4.5+ earthquakes: 62 of the 188. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 6 on January 20, 2025 (10 km NE of Yujing, Taiwan).

The events

Good to know

  • An event counts for Taitung when it began within 100 km of its centre, or 200 km for an earthquake of magnitude 7 or more. Damage can reach further.
  • USGS counts are its ComCat catalogue’s earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more, aftershocks included.
  • NOAA lists significant events only: earthquakes that killed, did about $1 million of damage, reached magnitude 7.5 or intensity X, or raised a tsunami, and eruptions and tsunamis by like measures. Magnitudes before 1900 are its estimates from written accounts.
  • Deaths are NOAA’s total for each event, wherever people died, its tsunami and fires included. A tsunami counts the dead its runup records give for this place: NOAA’s total for a tsunami includes its source quake’s.
  • A tsunami from elsewhere counts where one of its runups killed or rose a metre or more.
  • Counted to October 19, 2026, as is the map. The last 30 days ask USGS again.

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