{"id":495611,"date":"2025-12-24T08:25:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T12:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/a-magnitude-6-1-earthquake-shakes-the-east-coast-of-taiwan\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T08:25:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T12:25:20","slug":"a-magnitude-6-1-earthquake-shakes-the-east-coast-of-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/international\/a-magnitude-6-1-earthquake-shakes-the-east-coast-of-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"A magnitude 6.1 earthquake shakes the east coast of Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Beijing.-<\/strong> A <strong>6.1 magnitude earthquake<\/strong> shook eastern Taiwan this Wednesday, with its epicenter in Taitung County, with no casualties or significant damage reported so far, according to data from the <strong>Central Meteorological Center of the island (CWA)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\nThe earthquake occurred at 5:47 p.m. local time (09:47 GMT) and had its <strong>epicenter at 22.85 degrees north latitude<\/strong> and 121.15 degrees east longitude, about 10 kilometers north of the Taitung County Government building.\n\nThe hypocenter was located at a depth of 11.9 kilometers, according to the official report.\n\nTaiwanese authorities indicated that <strong>the maximum recorded intensity reached level 5 on the local scale in Taitung County, <\/strong>implying strong shaking widely perceived by the population and with the potential to cause minor damage.\n\n\n<p><strong>You may be interested in: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/internacionales\/el-terremoto-de-birmania-2025\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/internacionales\/el-terremoto-de-birmania-2025\/\">The Burma earthquake, the great tragedy of a 2025 generous in natural disasters<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThis same region was the scene of a <strong>7.2 magnitude earthquake in April of last year that caused 18 deaths<\/strong>, more than 1,100 injuries and millionaire losses for the local economy.\n\nTaiwan sits at the confluence of the Philippine and Eurasian plates, so earthquakes are frequent in this territory.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing.- A 6.1 magnitude earthquake shook eastern Taiwan this Wednesday, with its epicenter in Taitung County, with no casualties or significant damage reported so far, according to data from the Central Meteorological Center of the island (CWA). The earthquake occurred at 5:47 p.m. local time (09:47 GMT) and had its epicenter at 22.85 degrees north [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":495612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[40391,14757],"class_list":{"0":"post-495611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international","8":"tag-earthquake","9":"tag-taiwan"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/Copia-de-Post-de-Instagram-Feliz-Cumpleanos-Sencillo-Minimalista-Azul-1000-x-500-px-2025-12-24T082049.680.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/Copia-de-Post-de-Instagram-Feliz-Cumpleanos-Sencillo-Minimalista-Azul-1000-x-500-px-2025-12-24T082049.680.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}