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Minor earthquake, 3.9 mag strikes near Hualian in Taiwan


Earthquake location 24.1136S, 121.7189WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Tuesday, 19 kilometers (12 miles) from Hualian in Taiwan. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/02/18 / 2018-02-06 00:35:10 / February 6, 2018 @ 12:35 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000d38p. Unique identifier: us2000d38p. The temblor was reported at 08:35:10 / 8:35 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.14 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 121.7189° East, latitude 24.1136° North, depth = 10.14 km.

Event epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Puli, Yilan, Hualian (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-seven, in the last 10 days thirty-nine, in the past 30 days fourty and in the last 365 days sixty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 19 km NE of Hualian, Taiwan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.7189° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.1136° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.14 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 2018-02-06 00:35:10 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-19 00:26:43 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 234 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 0.128 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.65 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 90 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000d38p Id of event.
Event Code 2000d38p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d38p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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