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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Hualian in Taiwan

Posted by admin on May 12, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 23.8138S, 121.7188WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Hualian in Taiwan. Exact time and date of earthquake 12/05/18 / 2018-05-12 04:17:46 / May 12, 2018 @ 4:17 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.7188 East, latitude 23.8138 North, depth = 41.81 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 41.81 km (26 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000e3gt. Unique identifier: us1000e3gt. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 12:17:46 / 12:17 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 22 km (13 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 78 km (48 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Puli, Hualian. Country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days eighty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 21 km SSE of Hualian, Taiwan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.7188° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.8138° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 41.81 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 21km SSE 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 2018-05-12 04:17:46 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-05-12 05:42:36 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 0.375 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 85 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 us1000e3gt Id of event.
Event Code 1000e3gt An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000e3gt, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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