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Moderate earthquake 5 mag, 69 km NNE of Taitung City, Taiwan

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A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 69 kilometers (43 miles) from Taitung City in Taiwan on Thursday. Exact time and date of earthquake 27/04/16 / 2016-04-27 18:19:05 / April 27, 2016 @ 6:19 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us10005bzz. Event ids that are associated: us10005bzz. The temblor was detected at 02:19:05 / 2:19 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 121.3147° East, 23.3686° North, depth 10 km.

Epicenter of the event was 74 km (46 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Taitung City (c. 109 600 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Douliu (c. 104 700 pop), 75 km (47 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Zhongxing New Village, Yujing, Nantou (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Every year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 69 km NNE of Taitung City, Taiwan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	121.3147° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	23.3686° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	69km NNE 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	2016-04-27 18:19:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-04-27 18:35:05	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.2	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	385	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	0.028	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.32 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	38	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	us10005bzz	Id of event.
Event Code	10005bzz	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10005bzz,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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