Moderate earthquake, 5.2 mag has occurred near Hualian in Taiwan

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) has occurred on Wednesday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Hualian in Taiwan. Unique identifier: us20003jy9. Ids that are associated to the event: us20003jy9. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.63 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/09/15 / 2015-09-16 13:08:59 / September 16, 2015 @ 1:08 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 121.8313 East, latitude 24.2221 North, depth = 15.63 km. The 5.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 21:08:59 / 9:08 pm (local time epicenter).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Taoyuan City, Keelung, Taipei (min 5000 pop). Event epicenter was 97 km (60 miles) from Taipei (c. 7 871 900 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Banqiao (c. 543 300 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Taoyuan City (c. 402 000 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Keelung (c. 397 500 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop). Close country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fifty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 35 km NE of Hualian, Taiwan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	121.8313° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	24.2221° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	15.63 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	35km NE of Hualian, Taiwan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-09-16 13:08:59	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-09-16 13:41:15	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	9	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.4	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	419	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	0.221	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.87 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	34	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	us20003jy9	Id of event.
Event Code	20003jy9	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20003jy9,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

5.2 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

121.8313° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

24.2221° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

15.63 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

35km NE of Hualian, Taiwan

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2015-09-16 13:08:59

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2015-09-16 13:41:15

Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT

Timezone offset

480

Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.

Felt

The total number of felt reports

CDI

3.4

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

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

419

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

0.221

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.87 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us20003jy9

Id of event.

Event Code

20003jy9

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us20003jy9,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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