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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag was detected near Taitung City in Taiwan

Posted by admin on May 15, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 23.2564S, 121.4515WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 63 kilometers (39 miles) from Taitung City in Taiwan. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Global time and date of event 15/05/17 / 2017-05-15 23:12:52 / May 15, 2017 @ 11:12 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 10 km, 121.4515° East, 23.2564° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us10008sm6. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us10008sm6. The temblor was detected at 07:12:52 / 7:12 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the event was 82 km (51 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Taitung City (c. 109 600 pop), 109 km (68 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 105 km (66 miles) from Douliu (c. 104 700 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 110 km (69 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Zhongxing New Village, Nantou, Douliu. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking 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: 63 km NNE of Taitung City, Taiwan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.4515° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.2564° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 63km NNE of Taitung City, Taiwan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-05-15 23:12:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-05-15 23:38:16 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 4 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 450 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.196 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.07 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 34 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10008sm6 Id of event.
Event Code 10008sm6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10008sm6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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