Associate Professor Shih Jui-chuan of National Chung Cheng University's Institute of Seismology commented that it had been over 30 years since the 1964 Paihe earthquake, which measured 6.5 on the Richter scale. Seismic energy had been building up over a long period, and had not been fully released by this earthquake; a larger quake was possible in the future.
根據中正大學地震研究所副教授石瑞銓的觀察，這次地震距民國五十三年、規模達六．五級的白河大地震已有三十多年，地熱能量已累積很久，而此次地震並未全部釋放，未來仍可能發生更大的地震。