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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Taitung City in Taiwan


Earthquake location 22.8143S, 121.376WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 24 kilometers (15 miles) from Taitung City in Taiwan on Friday. Exact location of event, longitude 121.376 East, latitude 22.8143 North, depth = 47.46 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us2000j05k. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000j05k. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 47.46 km (29 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 03/01/19 / 2019-01-03 22:59:25 / January 3, 2019 @ 10:59 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 06:59:25 / 6:59 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taitung City. Close country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 25 km (15 miles) from Taitung City (c. 109 600 pop).

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 twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. 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.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 24 km ENE of Taitung City, Taiwan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.376° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 22.8143° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 47.46 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 24km ENE of Taitung City, Taiwan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-01-03 22:59:25 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-01-03 23:36:58 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 2.152 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 115 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 us2000j05k Id of event.
Event Code 2000j05k An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000j05k, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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