Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Hualian in Taiwan

Posted by admin on February 20, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 23.9479S, 121.6674WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Hualian in Taiwan. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 06/02/18 / 2018-02-06 16:26:44 / February 6, 2018 @ 4:26 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 3.67 km (2 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 121.6674° East, 23.9479° North, depth 3.67 km. Event id: us2000d39g. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000d39g. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 00:26:44 / 12:26 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lugu, Yilan, Puli. Country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 7 km (4 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-eight, in the last 10 days fourty-one, in the past 30 days fourty-one and in the last 365 days sixty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

Did you feel the quake?

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. 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: 7 km ESE of Hualian, Taiwan.

Copyright © 2018 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.6674° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.9479° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 3.67 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7km ESE 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 16:26:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-02-20 17:50:25 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 312 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 0.234 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.46 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 82 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 us2000d39g Id of event.
Event Code 2000d39g An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000d39g, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply

Follow us!

Tsunami videos

Categories

Information

Information and facts about all earthquakes today. Earthquake news and analysis on current events, Plate Tectonics, Seismometers, quake prediction, environment, Tsunamis, Seismologists, Prediction, live now, videos, information, pictures and much more. Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today.

© 2024 Earthquakes today - Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today