A light earthquake magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 47 kilometers (29 miles) from Hengchun in Taiwan. All ids that are associated to the event: us20006ftr. Unique identifier: us20006ftr. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. The temblor was reported at 17:04:33 / 5:04 pm (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 13/07/16 / 2016-07-13 09:04:33 / July 13, 2016 @ 9:04 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 120.3072° East, latitude 22.1252° North, depth = 10 km.
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kaohsiung, Hengchun. Epicenter of the earthquake was 55 km (34 miles) from Kaohsiung (c. 1 519 700 pop), 47 km (29 miles) from Hengchun (c. 31 300 pop). Nearby 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. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eleven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.
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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 47 km WNW of Hengchun, Taiwan.
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