Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Su’ao in Taiwan

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was reported 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Su’ao in Taiwan on Tuesday. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 03:07:31 / 3:07 am (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 25/06/18 / 2018-06-25 19:07:31 / June 25, 2018 @ 7:07 pm. Exact location of event, depth 67.07 km, 122.1011° East, 24.7033° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 67.07 km (42 miles). Id of earthquake: us2000fre3. Event ids that are associated: us2000fre3. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Taoyuan City, Daxi, Banqiao (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Taipei (c. 7 871 900 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Banqiao (c. 543 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Taoyuan City (c. 402 000 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Keelung (c. 397 500 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Daxi (c. 84 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop).

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

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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: 27 km ENE of Su’ao, Taiwan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.4 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	122.1011° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	24.7033° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	67.07 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	27km ENE of Su'ao, Taiwan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-06-25 19:07:31	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-07-03 15:00:26	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	298	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	0.611	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.69 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	81	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	us2000fre3	Id of event.
Event Code	2000fre3	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us2000fre3,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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