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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag has occurred near Su’ao in Taiwan

Posted by admin on February 19, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 24.5846S, 121.6439WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Su’ao in Taiwan. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 56.95 km (35 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.6439 East, latitude 24.5846 North, depth = 56.95 km. Unique identifier: us2000d4r5. Ids that are associated to the event: us2000d4r5. Global time and date of event 19/02/18 / 2018-02-19 14:47:01 / February 19, 2018 @ 2:47 pm UTC/GMT. The 5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 22:47:01 / 10:47 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 53 km (33 miles) from Taipei (c. 7 871 900 pop), 51 km (32 miles) from Banqiao (c. 543 300 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Hsinchu (c. 404 100 pop), 57 km (36 miles) from Taoyuan City (c. 402 000 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Keelung (c. 397 500 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 22 km (14 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Puli, Hsinchu, Hualian.

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days fourty and in the last 365 days sixty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 20 km W of Su’ao, Taiwan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.6439° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.5846° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 56.95 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km W of Su'ao, Taiwan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2018-02-19 14:47:01 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-19 15:12:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 30 The total number of felt reports
CDI 7 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 406 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 0.258 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.04 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 54 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 us2000d4r5 Id of event.
Event Code 2000d4r5 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d4r5, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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