The Taiwan Central Weather Bureau has reported a Magnitude 6.1 Earthquake at a depth of 11.9 km, 10.1 km to the north of the city of Taitung on the east coast of Taiwan, slightly after 5.45 pm local time (slightly after 9.45 am GMT on Wednesday 24 December 2025. There are no reports of any damage or casualties following this event, but it was felt across much of the island.
Taiwan has a complex tectonic setting, lying on the boundary between the Eurasian and Philippine Plates, with the Eurasian Plate being subducted beneath the Philippine Plate in the South and the Philippine Plate being subducted beneath the Eurasian in the East. Subduction is not a smooth process even in simple settings, with plates typically sticking together as pressure from tectonic expansion elsewhere builds up, then suddenly breaking apart and shifting abruptly, causing Earthquakes.
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