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Moderate earthquake: M5.3 quake has struck near Hualian in Taiwan


Earthquake location 24.163S, 121.747WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Hualian in Taiwan. The temblor was detected at 22:13:12 / 10:13 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13.54 km (8 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 04/02/18 / 2018-02-04 14:13:12 / February 4, 2018 @ 2:13 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000cfnf. Id of event: us1000cfnf. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of event, depth 13.54 km, 121.747° East, 24.163° North.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 101 km (63 miles) from Taipei (c. 7 871 900 pop), 108 km (67 miles) from Taichung (c. 1 040 700 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Banqiao (c. 543 300 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Hsinchu (c. 404 100 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Taoyuan City (c. 402 000 pop), 107 km (67 miles) from Keelung (c. 397 500 pop), 25 km (16 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Taichung, Keelung, Hsinchu.

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been four, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-nine 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 25 km NE of Hualian, Taiwan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.747° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.163° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.54 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 25km NE 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 2018-02-04 14:13:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-04 14:39:30 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2 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 432 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 0.139 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 75 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000cfnf Id of event.
Event Code 1000cfnf An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000cfnf, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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