A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Su’ao in Taiwan. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 09/12/16 / 2016-12-09 04:09:47 / December 9, 2016 @ 4:09 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, longitude 122.1648 East, latitude 24.7587 North, depth = 63.13 km. Event id: us20007zdj. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20007zdj. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 63.13 km (39 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:09:47 / 12:09 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taoyuan City, Daxi, Banqiao. Country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Event epicenter was 71 km (44 miles) from Taipei (c. 7 871 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Banqiao (c. 543 300 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Taoyuan City (c. 402 000 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Keelung (c. 397 500 pop), 42 km (26 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Daxi (c. 84 500 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 one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.
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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 36 km ENE of Su’ao, Taiwan.
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