Strong 6.0 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Taiwan December 24th 2025!

James Kaufman, World News Report Today. Ladies and gentlemen, we've had a 6.0 magnitude earthquake right on top of Taiwan. This earthquake occurred on a plate tectonic boundary that's not connected properly, but it's working on it. It's also directly on top of a volcanic chain. That's correct. The earthquake came in as a 6 on our DYFI, a six on our shake map and a default depth of 10 kilometers meaning they couldn't accurately define the depth of this earthquake here i'm going to zoom in and show it to you you can see one plate actually not connected here also not connected here to here and there's no connection between this part of the plate either now this is manila here and this is taiwan here this is actually your indonesian plate and this is your eurasia plate the pacific plate is way over here so we have a real situation and of course you can see all the volcanic ridges that run through these areas here one volcano after another this goes up into japan with several active volcanoes in this chain currently we'll take a look at those volcanoes in just one moment all right moving over to volcanoes and earthquakes.com we'll zoom on in and first off notice these connections that we talked about every plate in red is an actual tectonic plate the plates in blue are partial plates and the plates in black are what they expect to happen over the next well several years or hundreds of years depending on the area you can see all the active volcanoes on this ridge here running into taiwan and remember no plate tectonic connection here Eurasia plate here, Indonesian plate here, Pacific plate here and there's no connection in this area here either you can see the black line running through let's get some detailed information on this it looks like a 6.0 USGS being the main source here a default depth of 10 kilometers meaning they don't know how deep this was no active volcanoes currently on Taiwan but this area as you can see is filled with volcanoes that could erupt at any moment they're just not currently erupting erupting or awakening all right we also have raspberry shake coming in at 5.8 default depth 10 kilometers and the french coming at a mere 5.4 default depth we'll get some detailed information on this quake over to volcanodiscovery.com you can see this is our area of interest right here and we had a very strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake Christmas Eve December 24th it's more info on this all right so earthquake details it looks like the USGS can be our main reporting agency here only 23 reports came in not very many to be right there on Taiwan i guess they're just used to 6.0s uh here a 6.0 default depth 10 kilometers and not even an entire atomic bomb worth of energy 0.9 atomic bombs worth of energy were released with this earthquake Taking a close look, here we have 22 reports of someone feeling the quake. It did say in the summary that they think everyone on the island, 12.5 million people, would have felt the quake at some level. but reporting wise only 20 some odd people reported this and you can see well there's a really heavy report up here in orange which doesn't make any sense whatsoever and then another report here i don't know why there's an orange report up here which means severe or heavy intensity and the light blue obviously is less intense as it moves out like it should be now This is a 6.0, again, right there in Taichung, Taiwan, onshore, so there's no tsunami warning. We won't go to the National Data Buoy Center because there won't be any type of buoys in event mode. All right, comparing quake data from different reporting agencies, USGS comes in at a 6.0, coming in heavier than everyone else. Default depth, 10 kilometers. germany a 5.87 raspberry shake a 5.8 all default depths we have the french coming in at 5.48 always the lowest plus or minus 2.6 and we have the central weather bureau which i had to look up i won't lie to you that's the taiwanese government and they came in at a 6.1 magnitude heavier with a real depth of 12 kilometers then we have indonesia coming in at 5.8 default depth europeans at 6.0 12 kilometers of depth as well that must be a good number with the incorporated research institute for seismology coming in at 6.0 default depth we We have the Italians coming in at 6.0, plus or minus 0.2, 15 kilometers of depth. So this was a very shallow earthquake. And we have Australia coming in at a 5.7, which is kind of odd with a default depth of 10 kilometers. A depth given as 10 kilometers with an asterisk often means that the depth of the quake could not be determined with sufficient accuracy. this is a very active area plenty of sixes and sevens have been felt you can see the 6.0 today 12 kilometers northeast of Hualien about nine hours ago in 2024 last year we had a 7.4 and the biggest quake in this area was 106 years ago an 8.2 but there have been plenty in the 6 to seven five range so it's a very active area again they do think that 12.6 million people felt the ground shaking in one way or another from this quake so in summary a magnitude 6.0 earthquake right on top of taiwan we know that we have plate tectonics boundaries or plates that Don't connect in this area. Also, it's a volcanic ridge. With that said, if we see any large quakes, I will keep you apprised. Honorable mentions. I don't really see anything too honorable. God bless. Please share. Give us a thumbs up. Always remember, anything's possible in Bizarro World.