Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Yilan in Taiwan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Yilan in Taiwan on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 122.046° East, 24.861° North, depth 4.3 km. Event id: us10003rwc. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10003rwc. The epicenter was at a depth of 4.3 km (3 miles). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 07:08:17 / 7:08 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 20/10/15 / 2015-10-20 23:08:17 / October 20, 2015 @ 11:08 pm UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taoyuan City, Daxi, Banqiao (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 56 km (35 miles) from Taipei (c. 7 871 900 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Banqiao (c. 543 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Taoyuan City (c. 402 000 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Keelung (c. 397 500 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Daxi (c. 84 500 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 31 km ENE of Yilan, Taiwan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	122.046° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	24.861° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.3 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31km ENE of Yilan, Taiwan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2015-10-20 23:08:17	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2015-11-04 00:33:52	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	326	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	0.51	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	89	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	us10003rwc	Id of event.
Event Code	10003rwc	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10003rwc,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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