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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Taitung City in Taiwan

Posted by admin on August 23, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 23.1249S, 121.4563WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 51 kilometers (32 miles) from Taitung City in Taiwan on Saturday. The epicenter was at a depth of 22.7 km (14 miles). Event id: us100031ym. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us100031ym. Exact location, longitude 121.4563° East, latitude 23.1249° North, depth = 22.7 km. The temblor was picked up at 18:25:36 / 6:25 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/07/15 / 2015-07-25 10:25:36 / July 25, 2015 @ 10:25 am.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 52 km (32 miles) from Taitung City (c. 109 600 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Taitung City.

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 51 km NE of Taitung City, Taiwan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.4563° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.1249° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 22.7 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 51km NE of Taitung City, Taiwan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-07-25 10:25:36 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-08-23 06:34:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 284 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.303 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.64 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 63 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us100031ym Id of event.
Event Code 100031ym An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us100031ym, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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