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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 94 km ESE of Hengchun, Taiwan

Posted by admin on July 27, 2017 0 Comments

Earthquake location 21.59S, 121.5435WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 94 kilometers (58 miles) from Hengchun in Taiwan on Thursday. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 87.27 km (54 miles). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:08:13 / 3:08 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 121.5435° East, latitude 21.59° North, depth = 87.27 km. Event id: us2000a1ms. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000a1ms. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 27/07/17 / 2017-07-27 07:08:13 / July 27, 2017 @ 7:08 am.

Nearby country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hengchun (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Hengchun (c. 31 300 pop).

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 one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days ten earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 94 km ESE of Hengchun, Taiwan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.5435° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 21.59° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 87.27 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 94km ESE of Hengchun, Taiwan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-07-27 07:08:13 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-07-27 07:26:05 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 312 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 1.295 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.77 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 95 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000a1ms Id of event.
Event Code 2000a1ms An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000a1ms, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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