A light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 68 kilometers (42 miles) from Taitung City in Taiwan. Exact location, longitude 121.6187° East, latitude 23.19° North, depth = 25.27 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us2000j1cx. Unique identifier: us2000j1cx. 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 25.27 km (16 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 08/01/19 / 2019-01-08 12:16:45 / January 8, 2019 @ 12:16 pm. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:16:45 / 8:16 pm (local time epicenter).
Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hualian, Taitung City (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Event epicenter was 88 km (54 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Taitung City (c. 109 600 pop).
Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days eighty-six 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 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 68 km NE of Taitung City, Taiwan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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