Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Hualian in Taiwan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) strikes 4 kilometers (2 miles) from Hualian in Taiwan on Thursday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 121.6175° East, 23.9407° North, depth 4.59 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.59 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact time and date of earthquake 08/02/18 / 2018-02-08 00:59:27 / February 8, 2018 @ 12:59 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 08:59:27 / 8:59 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us2000cyk3. Event ids that are associated: us2000cyk3.

Earthquake epicenter was 4 km (3 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yilan, Lugu, Puli (min 5000 pop). Close 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. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days twenty-nine, in the past 30 days twenty-nine and in the last 365 days fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 4 km SSE of Hualian, Taiwan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	121.6175° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	23.9407° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.59 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	4km SSE 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	2018-02-08 00:59:27	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-02-08 01:29:34	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	284	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	0.233	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.45 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	95	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	us2000cyk3	Id of event.
Event Code	2000cyk3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000cyk3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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