Moderate earthquake, 5.6 mag strikes near Ma-kung in Taiwan

A moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 102 kilometers (63 miles) from Ma-kung in Taiwan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 14.96 km (9 miles). The temblor was picked up at 07:57:25 / 7:57 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us1000hwix. Ids that are associated to the event: us1000hwix. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 118.5964 East, latitude 23.4018 North, depth = 14.96 km. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/11/18 / 2018-11-25 23:57:25 / November 25, 2018 @ 11:57 pm.

Country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Ma-kung. Event epicenter was 103 km (64 miles) from Ma-kung (c. 56 400 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. 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 one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 102 km W of Ma-kung, Taiwan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	118.5964° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	23.4018° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14.96 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	102km W of Ma-kung, Taiwan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2018-11-25 23:57:25	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2018-11-26 00:28:56	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	480	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	22	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.8	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI	3.45	The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level	green	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	491	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	1.074	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.93 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	29	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us1000hwix	Id of event.
Event Code	1000hwix	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000hwix,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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