Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Lugu in Taiwan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Lugu in Taiwan. The epicenter was at a depth of 19.61 km (12 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 19:14:40 / 7:14 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/11/17 / 2017-11-11 11:14:40 / November 11, 2017 @ 11:14 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000brx6. Id of event: us2000brx6. Exact location of earthquake, 120.7634° East, 23.6321° North, depth 19.61 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Event epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Taichung (c. 1 040 700 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Tainan (c. 771 200 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 33 km (21 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 24 km (15 miles) from Douliu (c. 104 700 pop), 43 km (27 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 37 km (23 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hualian, Tainan, Yujing (min 5000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. 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: 12 km S of Lugu, Taiwan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	120.7634° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	23.6321° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	19.61 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	12km S of Lugu, Taiwan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-11-11 11:14:40	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-11-21 08:11:27	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	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	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	0.233	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.96 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	58	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	us2000brx6	Id of event.
Event Code	2000brx6	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000brx6,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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