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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag was detected near Hualian in Taiwan

Posted by admin on October 3, 2018 0 Comments

Earthquake location 24.0221S, 122.2558WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Hualian in Taiwan. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 45.38 km (28 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 122.2558 East, latitude 24.0221 North, depth = 45.38 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000hh6p. Id of event: us2000hh6p. The temblor was detected at 05:20:15 / 5:20 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 11/09/18 / 2018-09-11 21:20:15 / September 11, 2018 @ 9:20 pm.

Country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Event epicenter was 66 km (41 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hualian (min 5000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days eighty-eight 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.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 66 km E of Hualian, 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 122.2558° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.0221° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45.38 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66km 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 2018-09-11 21:20:15 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-03 02:33:12 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 0.622 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 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 us2000hh6p Id of event.
Event Code 2000hh6p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000hh6p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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