Light earthquake: M4.3 quake has struck near Hualian in Taiwan

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Hualian in Taiwan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 14.2 km (9 miles). Event id: us10005iw8. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10005iw8. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.7696 East, latitude 24.1508 North, depth = 14.2 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake was detected at 17:26:56 / 5:26 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 14/05/16 / 2016-05-14 09:26:56 / May 14, 2016 @ 9:26 am.

The epicenter was 26 km (16 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Puli, Yilan, Hualian (min 5000 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 eight, in the last 10 days fourteen, in the past 30 days twenty-six 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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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 25 km NE of Hualian, Taiwan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	121.7696° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	24.1508° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14.2 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	25km 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	2016-05-14 09:26:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2016-06-09 05:08:06	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	284	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	0.161	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.5 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	136	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	us10005iw8	Id of event.
Event Code	10005iw8	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us10005iw8,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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