Moderate earthquake, 5.7 mag has occurred near Hualian in Taiwan

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Hualian in Taiwan. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 07/02/18 / 2018-02-07 15:21:31 / February 7, 2018 @ 3:21 pm. Exact location, longitude 121.7382° East, latitude 24.0977° North, depth = 10.75 km. The 5.7-magnitude earthquake was detected at 23:21:31 / 11:21 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10.75 km (7 miles). All ids that are associated to the event: us1000ci9y. Unique identifier: us1000ci9y. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearby country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Keelung, Nantou, Hsinchu (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 108 km (67 miles) from Taipei (c. 7 871 900 pop), 107 km (67 miles) from Taichung (c. 1 040 700 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Banqiao (c. 543 300 pop), 111 km (69 miles) from Hsinchu (c. 404 100 pop), 109 km (68 miles) from Taoyuan City (c. 402 000 pop), 115 km (71 miles) from Keelung (c. 397 500 pop), 19 km (12 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 111 km (69 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifteen, in the last 10 days twenty-seven, in the past 30 days twenty-eight and in the last 365 days fifty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	121.7382° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	24.0977° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10.75 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	19km 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	2018-02-07 15:21:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-02-07 15:46:27	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	33	The total number of felt reports
CDI	5	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	6.07	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	516	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	0.151	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.9 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	39	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	us1000ci9y	Id of event.
Event Code	1000ci9y	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000ci9y,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Parameter

Value

Description

Magnitude

5.7 mb

The magnitude for the event.

Longitude

121.7382° East

Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.

Latitude

24.0977° North

Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.

Depth

10.75 km

Depth of the event in kilometers.

Place

19km 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

2018-02-07 15:21:31

Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT

Updated

2018-02-07 15:46:27

Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT

Timezone offset

480

Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.

Felt

The total number of felt reports

CDI

The maximum reported intensity for the event.

MMI

6.07

The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.

Alert Level

green

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

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

516

A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.

Network

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

0.151

Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).

Root Mean Square

0.9 sec

The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.

Azimuthal Gap

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

us1000ci9y

Id of event.

Event Code

1000ci9y

An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.

Event IDS

,us1000ci9y,

A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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