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Light earthquake, 4.1 mag has occurred near Hualian in Taiwan

Posted by admin on January 13, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 24.0686S, 121.8245WA light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Hualian in Taiwan. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 12.14 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004e4p. Id of event: us10004e4p. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/01/16 / 2016-01-13 17:11:47 / January 13, 2016 @ 5:11 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.8245 East, latitude 24.0686 North, depth = 12.14 km. The temblor was picked up at 01:11:47 / 1:11 am (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 25 km (15 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 88 km (54 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Puli, Yilan, Hualian. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days seventy-three 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 24 km ENE of Hualian, Taiwan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.8245° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.0686° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.14 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km ENE 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 2016-01-13 17:11:47 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-13 22:49:25 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 0.234 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 139 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 us10004e4p Id of event.
Event Code 10004e4p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004e4p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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