A 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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