Strong earthquake, 6.7 mag was detected near Yujing in Taiwan

A earthquake magnitude 6.7 (ml/mb) strikes 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Yujing in Taiwan on Saturday. Unique identifier: at00o23bfs. Ids that are associated to the event: pt16036050, at00o23bfs. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The temblor was picked up at 03:57:30 / 3:57 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has been issued near Yujing in Taiwan (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 120.5° East, 22.9° North. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 05/02/16 / 2016-02-05 19:57:30 / February 5, 2016 @ 7:57 pm.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Puli, Zhongxing New Village, Ma-kung. Earthquake epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Kaohsiung (c. 1 519 700 pop), 31 km (19 miles) from Tainan (c. 771 200 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Taitung City (c. 109 600 pop), 114 km (71 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Douliu (c. 104 700 pop), 128 km (79 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 119 km (74 miles) from Ma-kung (c. 56 400 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Hengchun (c. 31 300 pop), 119 km (74 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. Each year there are an estimated 135 quakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 25 km S of Yujing, Taiwan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Douliu Hengchun Kaohsiung Ma-kung Nantou Puli Tainan Taitung City Taiwan Yujing Zhongxing New Village

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	6.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	120.5° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	22.9° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	25km S of Yujing, Taiwan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-02-05 19:57:30	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-02-05 20:09:51	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	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	1	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	691	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	at	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,pt,at,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	28	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.93604453	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	2.49 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	68.4	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	Mi	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	at00o23bfs	Id of event.
Event Code	00o23bfs	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pt16036050,at00o23bfs,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

6.7 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

120.5° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

22.9° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

10 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

25km S of Yujing, Taiwan

Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.

Time

2016-02-05 19:57:30

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2016-02-05 20:09:51

Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT

Timezone offset

480

Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.

Felt

The total number of felt reports

CDI

3.8

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

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

691

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.

Sources

,pt,at,

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

0.93604453

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

2.49 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

68.4

The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).

Magnitude Type

The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

at00o23bfs

Id of event.

Event Code

00o23bfs

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,pt16036050,at00o23bfs,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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