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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Hualian in Taiwan


Earthquake location 23.8374S, 121.5447WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Hualian in Taiwan. The epicenter was at a depth of 4.29 km (3 miles). Exact location of earthquake, 121.5447° East, 23.8374° North, depth 4.29 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000hcel. Id of event: us2000hcel. The temblor was detected at 12:43:26 / 12:43 pm (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 11/09/18 / 2018-09-11 04:43:26 / September 11, 2018 @ 4:43 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taichung, Nantou, Zhongxing New Village. Epicenter of the event was 94 km (58 miles) from Taichung (c. 1 040 700 pop), 17 km (10 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days one hundred and three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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 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: 16 km SSW of Hualian, Taiwan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.5447° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.8374° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km SSW 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 2018-09-11 04:43:26 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-09-11 05:07:59 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 0.338 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 138 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 us2000hcel Id of event.
Event Code 2000hcel An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hcel, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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