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Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Taiwan


Earthquake location 23.1372S, 121.5733WA light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) strikes Taiwan kilometers (0 miles) from Taiwan on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:39:44 / 12:39 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us200065fh. Ids that are associated to the event: us200065fh. Exact location of event, longitude 121.5733 East, latitude 23.1372 North, depth = 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 20/06/16 / 2016-06-20 00:39:44 / June 20, 2016 @ 12:39 am UTC/GMT.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hualian, Taitung City. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). The epicenter was 93 km (58 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Taitung City (c. 109 600 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fourty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: Taiwan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.8 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.5733° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.1372° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place Taiwan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-06-20 00:39:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-06-20 01:01:42 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 354 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 0.359 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.05 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 us200065fh Id of event.
Event Code 200065fh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us200065fh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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