A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Hualian in Taiwan on Wednesday. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000chvf. Unique identifier: us1000chvf. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.6773 East, latitude 23.9887 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:43:51 / 7:43 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 06/02/18 / 2018-02-06 23:43:51 / February 6, 2018 @ 11:43 pm UTC/GMT.
Epicenter of the earthquake was 8 km (5 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 86 km (53 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lugu, Yilan, Puli.
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days twenty and in the last 365 days fourty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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