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Minor earthquake, 3.5 mag has occurred near Taipei in Taiwan

Posted by admin on February 10, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 25.1049S, 121.4601WA minor earthquake magnitude 3.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Taipei in Taiwan. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us2000jfxs. Id of event: us2000jfxs. The temblor was picked up at 04:12:58 / 4:12 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 09/02/19 / 2019-02-09 20:12:58 / February 9, 2019 @ 8:12 pm. The epicenter was at a depth of 11.83 km (7 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.4601 East, latitude 25.1049 North, depth = 11.83 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hsinchu, Yilan, Daxi (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 10 km (6 miles) from Taipei (c. 7 871 900 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Banqiao (c. 543 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Hsinchu (c. 404 100 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Taoyuan City (c. 402 000 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Keelung (c. 397 500 pop), 49 km (30 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop).

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 fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 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. 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: 9 km NW of Taipei, Taiwan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.4601° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 25.1049° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 11.83 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9km NW of Taipei, Taiwan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-02-09 20:12:58 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-02-10 12:55:01 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 189 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 0.135 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.91 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 216 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us2000jfxs Id of event.
Event Code 2000jfxs An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us2000jfxs, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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