Moderate earthquake, 5.5 mag has occurred near Su’ao in Taiwan

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Su’ao in Taiwan. The temblor was detected at 12:29:56 / 12:29 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 12/05/16 / 2016-05-12 04:29:56 / May 12, 2016 @ 4:29 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 122.0393 East, latitude 24.6819 North, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us10005gq4. Unique identifier: us10005gq4.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 65 km (41 miles) from Taipei (c. 7 871 900 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Banqiao (c. 543 300 pop), 109 km (68 miles) from Hsinchu (c. 404 100 pop), 83 km (51 miles) from Taoyuan City (c. 402 000 pop), 58 km (36 miles) from Keelung (c. 397 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Daxi (c. 84 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hsinchu, Hualian, Taoyuan City (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 21 km ENE of Su’ao, Taiwan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	122.0393° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	24.6819° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21km ENE of Su'ao, Taiwan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2016-05-12 04:29:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-05-12 04:47:26	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	8	The total number of felt reports
CDI	4.3	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	4.89	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	469	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	0.571	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.24 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	31	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	us10005gq4	Id of event.
Event Code	10005gq4	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10005gq4,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

5.5 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

122.0393° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

24.6819° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

10 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

21km ENE of Su'ao, Taiwan

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

Time

2016-05-12 04:29:56

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2016-05-12 04:47:26

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

4.3

The maximum reported intensity for the event.

MMI

4.89

The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.

Alert Level

green

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

469

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

,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

0.571

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

Root Mean Square

1.24 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

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

Event Type

earthquake

Type of seismic event.

Event ID

us10005gq4

Id of event.

Event Code

10005gq4

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

Event IDS

,us10005gq4,

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

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