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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Su’ao in Taiwan


Earthquake location 24.5853S, 122.4075WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Su’ao in Taiwan. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 87.1 km (54 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). All ids that are associated to the event: us10003xuc. Unique identifier: us10003xuc. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/11/15 / 2015-11-09 00:15:52 / November 9, 2015 @ 12:15 am. Exact location of earthquake, 122.4075° East, 24.5853° North, depth 87.1 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 08:15:52 / 8:15 am (local time epicenter).

Close country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 90 km (56 miles) from Keelung (c. 397 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Keelung, Yilan.

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 four, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days seventy-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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. 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: 56 km E of Su’ao, Taiwan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.4075° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.5853° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 87.1 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 56km E of Su'ao, Taiwan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-11-09 00:15:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-11-22 04:24:21 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 298 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 0.562 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.96 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 83 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 us10003xuc Id of event.
Event Code 10003xuc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10003xuc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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