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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag has occurred near Hualian in Taiwan


Earthquake location 24.1298S, 121.7709WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was reported 23 kilometers (14 miles) from Hualian in Taiwan on Monday. Exact location of earthquake, 121.7709° East, 24.1298° North, depth 10 km. Exact time and date of earthquake 05/02/18 / 2018-02-05 09:06:44 / February 5, 2018 @ 9:06 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000cfyn. Id of event: us1000cfyn. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 17:06:44 / 5:06 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Daxi, Puli, Yilan. Country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 24 km (15 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Daxi (c. 84 500 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-four, in the last 10 days twenty-five, in the past 30 days twenty-six and in the last 365 days fifty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 23 km NE of Hualian, Taiwan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.7709° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.1298° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 23km 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 2018-02-05 09:06:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-07 12:25:34 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 340 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 0.166 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.02 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 mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us1000cfyn Id of event.
Event Code 1000cfyn An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000cfyn, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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