March 22, 2022 Earthquake: Hualien, T'Ait-Tung, Taiwan
A magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck Hualien, T'Ait-Tung, Taiwan on March 22, 2022 at 17:41:38 UTC, 24 km below the surface.
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Where it struck, with the other significant earthquakes within 200 km. Circles are sized and colored by magnitude; select one for its page.
The earthquake
- Date
- March 22, 2022
- Time
- 17:41:38 UTC
- Place
- Hualien, T'Ait-Tung, Taiwan
- Magnitude
- 6.7 (Mw)
- Focal depth
- 24 km (15 mi)
- Intensity
- 7 on the Modified Mercalli scale
- Tsunami
- None recorded
- Epicenter
- 23.384° N, 121.612° E
- Country
- Taiwan
The toll
- Injuries
- 1
- Damage
- $1.5 million
- Houses damaged
- 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.
What the record says
NCEI’s account, from the sources it cites.
One person injured in Changbin, a road cracked in Taitung and a bridge collapsed in Yuli. Items knocked from shelves, power outages occurred and rockslides blocked roads in Hualien and Taitung. Yuli, Hualien, Taiwan - CDI: 7 Tanshui, Taipei Hsien, Taiwan - CDI: 5 Chichi, Nantou, Taiwan - CDI: 5 Taitung, Taitung, Taiwan - CDI: 5 Kangshan, Kaohsiung Hsien, Taiwan - CDI: 5 (reference #13456)
One person was injured and a highway bridge was damaged after a magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck off the southeast coast of Taiwan at 1:41am yesterday. Officials said aftershocks of up to magnitude 6.0 could occur in the next three days. An 88-year-old man in Taitung County’s Changbin Township was taken to a local hospital after being injured by shards of glass that fell on him during the earthquake. [...] Junior-high and elementary schools across the nation reported damage totaling NT$41.54 million (US$1.45 million), Ministry of Education data showed. The quake destroyed a shrimp farmer’s pond in Taitung, washing away about 100,000 shrimp and causing estimated damage of NT$2 million [US$70,000]. Dozens of homes in Hualien and Taitung counties were also damaged. (reference #13200)
Other significant earthquakes nearby
Within 200 km, the deadliest first.
- May 22, 1782, Tainan, Taiwan
- April 20, 1935, Mialoi, Taiwan
- July 16, 1935, Xiinzhu, Taiwan
- September 20, 1999, Nantou, Taichung, Taizhong, Taiwan
- 1721, Tainan, Taiwan
- June 6, 1862, Tainan, Taiwan
- March 16, 1906, Jiayi, Taiwan
- December 3, 1848, Zhanghua, Taiwan
- February 1845, Zhanghua, Taiwan
- December 16, 1941, Taiwan
- January 30, 1736, Tainan, Taiwan
- August 9, 1792, Jiayi, Tainan, Taiwan
- August 28, 1916, Taiwan
- November 5, 1904, Jiayi, Taiwan
- February 5, 2016, Tainan, Taiwan
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Sources
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 10606.