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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Hualian in Taiwan

Posted by admin on June 8, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 24.1749S, 121.9521WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 41 kilometers (25 miles) from Hualian in Taiwan. Event id: us10005ivu. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005ivu. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 5.8 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location of earthquake, 121.9521° East, 24.1749° North, depth 5.8 km. The temblor was reported at 11:35:02 / 11:35 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 14/05/16 / 2016-05-14 03:35:02 / May 14, 2016 @ 3:35 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 42 km (26 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yilan, Hualian (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days eleven, in the past 30 days twenty-three and in the last 365 days eighty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 41 km ENE of Hualian, Taiwan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.9521° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.1749° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5.8 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 41km ENE 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 2016-05-14 03:35:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-08 23:22:39 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 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 298 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 0.326 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 137 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 us10005ivu Id of event.
Event Code 10005ivu An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10005ivu, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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