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Light earthquake: M4.7 quake has struck near Hualian in Taiwan

Posted by admin on June 20, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 24.0179S, 122.2674WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Hualian in Taiwan. Global time and date of event 20/06/18 / 2018-06-20 19:18:56 / June 20, 2018 @ 7:18 pm UTC/GMT. Id of earthquake: us1000ewrr. Event ids that are associated: us1000ewrr. The temblor was detected at 03:18:56 / 3:18 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 122.2674° East, latitude 24.0179° North, depth = 10 km.

Event epicenter was 67 km (42 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop). Close country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yilan, Hualian (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 five, in the past 30 days six and in the last 365 days eighty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 67 km E of Hualian, Taiwan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.2674° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.0179° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67km 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 2018-06-20 19:18:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-06-20 19:49:21 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 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 0.634 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.87 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 61 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 us1000ewrr Id of event.
Event Code 1000ewrr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000ewrr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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