A light earthquake magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Hualian in Taiwan. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 06/02/18 / 2018-02-06 19:36:35 / February 6, 2018 @ 7:36 pm. The temblor was picked up at 03:36:35 / 3:36 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.7751 East, latitude 23.9506 North, depth = 7.95 km. Event id: us1000chmg. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000chmg. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 7.95 km (5 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yilan, Puli, Hualian. The epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop). Nearby country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected).
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 eight, in the last 10 days seventeen, in the past 30 days seventeen and in the last 365 days thirty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.
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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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 17 km E of Hualian, Taiwan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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