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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 32 km WNW of Hengchun, Taiwan


Earthquake location 22.12S, 120.4548WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Hengchun in Taiwan on Thursday. Exact location of earthquake, 120.4548° East, 22.12° North, depth 34.62 km. Global time and date of event 04/10/18 / 2018-10-04 06:17:30 / October 4, 2018 @ 6:17 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 14:17:30 / 2:17 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000h6ui. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000h6ui. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 34.62 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Close country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Kaohsiung, Hengchun (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 57 km (35 miles) from Kaohsiung (c. 1 519 700 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Hengchun (c. 31 300 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes 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 one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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 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: 32 km WNW of Hengchun, Taiwan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 120.4548° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 22.12° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 34.62 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 32km WNW 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 2018-10-04 06:17:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2018-10-04 06:56:35 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 284 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 0.903 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 116 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 us1000h6ui Id of event.
Event Code 1000h6ui An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us1000h6ui, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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