A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from Hengchun in Taiwan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 17/12/16 / 2016-12-17 05:42:46 / December 17, 2016 @ 5:42 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 120.9544 East, latitude 21.7177 North, depth = 28.59 km. Unique identifier: us10007ppm. Ids that are associated to the event: us10007ppm. The temblor was picked up at 13:42:46 / 1:42 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 28.59 km (18 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hengchun (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 39 km (24 miles) from Hengchun (c. 31 300 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 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 three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days sixteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.
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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: 38 km SE of Hengchun, Taiwan.
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