A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Hualian in Taiwan. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 07/02/18 / 2018-02-07 15:56:04 / February 7, 2018 @ 3:56 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000d3d2. Id of event: us2000d3d2. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:56:04 / 11:56 pm (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, 121.8411° East, 24.113° North, depth 10 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Puli, Yilan, Hualian (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Event epicenter was 28 km (18 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty, in the last 10 days fourty-eight, in the past 30 days fourty-nine and in the last 365 days seventy-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.
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