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Light earthquake 4.6 mag, 72 km E of Hualian, Taiwan


Earthquake location 23.9217S, 122.3102WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Hualian in Taiwan. Event id: us2000atud. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000atud. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/09/17 / 2017-09-24 05:49:44 / September 24, 2017 @ 5:49 am. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 13:49:44 / 1:49 pm (local time epicenter). 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 19.2 km (12 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 122.3102 East, latitude 23.9217 North, depth = 19.2 km.

Close country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the earthquake was 72 km (45 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hualian.

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 three and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 72 km E of Hualian, Taiwan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.3102° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.9217° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 19.2 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 72km E of Hualian, Taiwan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2017-09-24 05:49:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2017-09-24 07:02:02 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 326 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 0.7 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.57 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 99 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 us2000atud Id of event.
Event Code 2000atud An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000atud, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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