Minor earthquake, 3.8 mag was detected near Hengchun in Taiwan

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.8 (ml/mb) was reported 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Hengchun in Taiwan on Sunday. Exact location of event, depth 8.56 km, 121.0552° East, 22.1523° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 8.56 km (5 miles). The temblor was reported at 12:09:32 / 12:09 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 05/08/18 / 2018-08-05 04:09:32 / August 5, 2018 @ 4:09 am UTC/GMT. Event id: us1000g3rk. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us1000g3rk.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taitung City, Hengchun. Nearby country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 68 km (42 miles) from Taitung City (c. 109 600 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Hengchun (c. 31 300 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city 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: 36 km ENE of Hengchun, Taiwan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	121.0552° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	22.1523° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.56 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	36km ENE of Hengchun, Taiwan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-08-05 04:09:32	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-08-05 05:50:20	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	2.2	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	222	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	0.662	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.61 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	109	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	us1000g3rk	Id of event.
Event Code	1000g3rk	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000g3rk,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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