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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 165 km SSW of Hengchun, Taiwan

Posted by admin on January 20, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 20.6879S, 119.9879WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 165 km SSW of Hengchun, Taiwan (103 miles). The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 02:50:02 / 2:50 am (local time epicenter). 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: us10004fnu. Unique identifier: us10004fnu. Exact time and date of earthquake 19/01/16 / 2016-01-19 18:50:02 / January 19, 2016 @ 6:50 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 119.9879 East, latitude 20.6879 North, depth = 15.84 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 15.84 km (10 miles) below the earth’s surface.

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

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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. 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: 165 km SSW of Hengchun, Taiwan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 119.9879° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 20.6879° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 15.84 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 165km SSW of Hengchun, Taiwan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-01-19 18:50:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-01-20 18:29:31 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 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 2.35 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.31 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 61 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 us10004fnu Id of event.
Event Code 10004fnu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004fnu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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