Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Hualian in Taiwan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Hualian in Taiwan. The temblor was detected at 23:42:05 / 11:42 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/06/18 / 2018-06-11 15:42:05 / June 11, 2018 @ 3:42 pm. Exact location of event, longitude 121.7769 East, latitude 23.957 North, depth = 4.9 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us1000enhk. Unique identifier: us1000enhk. The epicenter was at a depth of 4.9 km (3 miles).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yilan, Puli, Hualian. Country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Event epicenter was 18 km (11 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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 three and in the last 365 days eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 17 km E of Hualian, Taiwan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	121.7769° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	23.957° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	4.9 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17km E 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	2018-06-11 15:42:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-06-11 16:48:13	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	1	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2	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	0.272	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.52 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	us1000enhk	Id of event.
Event Code	1000enhk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000enhk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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