A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Su’ao in Taiwan. Exact location, longitude 121.997° East, latitude 24.4247° North, depth = 11.27 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 31/08/16 / 2016-08-31 16:28:54 / August 31, 2016 @ 4:28 pm. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:28:54 / 12:28 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us10006j2e. Ids that are associated to the event: us10006j2e. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 11.27 km (7 miles).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Taoyuan City, Daxi, Banqiao. Close country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 84 km (52 miles) from Taipei (c. 7 871 900 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Banqiao (c. 543 300 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Taoyuan City (c. 402 000 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Keelung (c. 397 500 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 44 km (28 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Daxi (c. 84 500 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days seventy-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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