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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 20 km ESE of Hualian, Taiwan

Posted by admin on June 11, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 23.9241S, 121.8002WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Hualian in Taiwan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 04:52:28 / 4:52 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 121.8002 East, latitude 23.9241 North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us1000enp2. Event ids that are associated: us1000enp2. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/06/18 / 2018-06-11 20:52:28 / June 11, 2018 @ 8:52 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 21 km (13 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yilan, Puli, Hualian (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days eighty-five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 20 km ESE of Hualian, Taiwan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.8002° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.9241° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20km ESE 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 20:52:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-11 22:07:56 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 4.1 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 340 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 0.311 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.82 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 us1000enp2 Id of event.
Event Code 1000enp2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000enp2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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