A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 64 kilometers (40 miles) from Hualian in Taiwan. Exact time and date of earthquake 21/02/18 / 2018-02-21 23:10:39 / February 21, 2018 @ 11:10 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 07:10:39 / 7:10 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 121.6286° East, 23.3971° North, depth 10 km. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000d669. Id of event: us2000d669.
Epicenter of the event was 65 km (40 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Taitung City (c. 109 600 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 97 km (61 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lugu, Puli, Taitung City (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days fourty-three and in the last 365 days sixty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.
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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 64 km S of Hualian, Taiwan.
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