A light earthquake with magnitude 4.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Sunday, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Taitung City in Taiwan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 29/04/18 / 2018-04-29 07:02:36 / April 29, 2018 @ 7:02 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 15:02:36 / 3:02 pm (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000du7n. Id of event: us1000du7n. Exact location of event, longitude 121.1865 East, latitude 22.3003 North, depth = 10 km.
Country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hengchun, Taitung City (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 51 km (32 miles) from Taitung City (c. 109 600 pop), 56 km (35 miles) from Hengchun (c. 31 300 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.
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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. 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: 50 km S of Taitung City, Taiwan.
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