A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 57 kilometers (35 miles) from Hengchun in Taiwan on Monday. The temblor was picked up at 04:16:06 / 4:16 am (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 121.0194° East, latitude 21.5579° North, depth = 10 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/12/16 / 2016-12-11 20:16:06 / December 11, 2016 @ 8:16 pm. Event id: us20008013. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20008013. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hengchun (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 57 km (36 miles) from Hengchun (c. 31 300 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. 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: 57 km SSE of Hengchun, Taiwan.
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