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Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag strikes near Hualian in Taiwan

Posted by admin on April 27, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 24.2179S, 121.8245WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) strikes 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Hualian in Taiwan on Wednesday. All ids that are associated to the event: us10005bxy. Unique identifier: us10005bxy. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 27/04/16 / 2016-04-27 15:17:13 / April 27, 2016 @ 3:17 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.8245 East, latitude 24.2179 North, depth = 8.31 km. The 5.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:17:13 / 11:17 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.31 km (5 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 97 km (60 miles) from Taipei (c. 7 871 900 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Banqiao (c. 543 300 pop), 108 km (67 miles) from Hsinchu (c. 404 100 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Taoyuan City (c. 402 000 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Keelung (c. 397 500 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hsinchu, Keelung, Taoyuan City.

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 sixty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 34 km NE of Hualian, Taiwan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.8245° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.2179° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 8.31 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34km NE 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 2016-04-27 15:17:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-04-27 15:39:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 27 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.7 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 445 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 0.214 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 52 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 us10005bxy Id of event.
Event Code 10005bxy An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005bxy, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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