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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Hualian in Taiwan

Posted by admin on September 29, 2015 0 Comments

Earthquake location 24.2402S, 121.8067WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Hualian in Taiwan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 23.2 km (14 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us20003nj1. Event ids that are associated: us20003nj1. The temblor was picked up at 10:07:18 / 10:07 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 121.8067 East, latitude 24.2402 North, depth = 23.2 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 16/09/15 / 2015-09-16 02:07:18 / September 16, 2015 @ 2:07 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Puli, Daxi, Yilan (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 36 km (22 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Daxi (c. 84 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been five, in the last 10 days six, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.8067° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.2402° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.2 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 02:07:18 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-09-29 22:08:42 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 259 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 0.204 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 85 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 us20003nj1 Id of event.
Event Code 20003nj1 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20003nj1, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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