June 5, 1994 Earthquake: Chi-Lung, I-Lan, Taipei, Nan-Ao, Taiwan

Date

June 5, 1994

Time

01:09:30 UTC

Place

Chi-Lung, I-Lan, Taipei, Nan-Ao, Taiwan

Magnitude

6.4 (Mw)

Focal depth

11 km (7 mi)

Tsunami

None recorded

Epicenter

24.511° N, 121.905° E

Country

Taiwan

Deaths

1

Injuries

2

Damage

Moderate (about $1 to $5 million)

Houses destroyed

Some (about 51 to 100)

Where the literature gives no number, NCEI records a description on a scale of 1 to 4, printed here in its words. Damage is in millions of US dollars of the year of the event, not adjusted for inflation.

• May 22, 1782, Tainan, Taiwan40,000 deaths · 142 km
• April 20, 1935, Mialoi, TaiwanM6 · 3,276 deaths · 17,907 houses destroyed · 114 km
• July 16, 1935, Xiinzhu, TaiwanM6.5 · 2,746 deaths · 30,000 houses destroyed · 112 km
• September 20, 1999, Nantou, Taichung, Taizhong, TaiwanM7.6 · 2,297 deaths · $14 billion · 134 km
• March 16, 1906, Jiayi, TaiwanM6.8 · 1,258 deaths · 6,769 houses destroyed · 175 km
• December 3, 1848, Zhanghua, TaiwanM6.8 · 1,001 deaths · 20,300 houses destroyed · 150 km
• December 18, 1867, Chilung (Keelung), TaiwanM7 · 580 deaths · 92 km
• February 1845, Zhanghua, TaiwanM6 · 380 deaths · 4,000 houses destroyed · 150 km
• August 9, 1792, Jiayi, Tainan, TaiwanM6.8 · 252 deaths · 14,889 houses destroyed · 175 km
• August 28, 1916, TaiwanM6.5 · 180 deaths · 614 houses destroyed · 136 km
• November 5, 1904, Jiayi, TaiwanM6.3 · 145 deaths · 661 houses destroyed · 198 km
• June 27, 1839, Jiayi, TaiwanM6.5 · 117 deaths · 6,600 houses destroyed · 197 km
• October 13, 1815, TaiwanM6.5 · 111 deaths · 105 km
• January 18, 1964, Tainan, TaiwanM7 · 107 deaths · 3,000 houses destroyed · 197 km
• October 22, 1951, TaiwanM7.3 · 68 deaths · 2,382 houses destroyed · 82 km

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Significant earthquakes from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Hazard Database, cited as NCEI/WDS, doi:10.7289/V5PN93H7. Public domain. Read 2026-09-24. NCEI earthquake 5386.