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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Taitung City in Taiwan

Posted by admin on February 18, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 23.0296S, 120.9179WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 37 kilometers (23 miles) from Taitung City in Taiwan. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 18/02/16 / 2016-02-18 01:18:33 / February 18, 2016 @ 1:18 am. The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 09:18:33 / 9:18 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, 120.9179° East, 23.0296° North, depth 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us10004qp8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10004qp8.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Douliu, Lugu, Kaohsiung. Epicenter of the event was 77 km (48 miles) from Kaohsiung (c. 1 519 700 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Tainan (c. 771 200 pop), 38 km (24 miles) from Taitung City (c. 109 600 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Douliu (c. 104 700 pop), 81 km (51 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop), 48 km (30 miles) from Yujing (c. 16 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 37 km NW of Taitung City, Taiwan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.9179° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.0296° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 37km NW of Taitung City, Taiwan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-02-18 01:18:33 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-02-18 01:32:35 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 340 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 0.258 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.94 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 91 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10004qp8 Id of event.
Event Code 10004qp8 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10004qp8, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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