Light earthquake, 4.2 mag was detected near Taitung City in Taiwan

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Taitung City in Taiwan. Global time and date of event 17/04/16 / 2016-04-17 23:12:28 / April 17, 2016 @ 11:12 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 07:12:28 / 7:12 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.4 km (5 miles). Exact location, longitude 121.02° East, latitude 23.19° North, depth = 8.4 km. Id of earthquake: us20005lc7. Event ids that are associated: us20005lc7. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Zhongxing New Village, Nantou, Puli. Nearby country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Event epicenter was 85 km (53 miles) from Tainan (c. 771 200 pop), 50 km (31 miles) from Taitung City (c. 109 600 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Douliu (c. 104 700 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days thirty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 49 km NNW of Taitung City, Taiwan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	121.02° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	23.19° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.4 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	49km NNW 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	2016-04-17 23:12:28	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-04-24 05:05:28	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	271	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		Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.56 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap		The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us20005lc7	Id of event.
Event Code	20005lc7	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us20005lc7,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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