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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag strikes near Hualian in Taiwan

Posted by admin on April 24, 2019 0 Comments

Earthquake location 23.9305S, 121.6075WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Hualian in Taiwan. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 15/04/19 / 2019-04-15 15:26:21 / April 15, 2019 @ 3:26 pm. Event id: us70003bdm. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003bdm. The epicenter was at a depth of 16.57 km (10 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.6075 East, latitude 23.9305 North, depth = 16.57 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 23:26:21 / 11:26 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Zhongxing New Village, Yilan, Lugu (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 5 km (3 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop). Close country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days fifty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes 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, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 5 km S of Hualian, Taiwan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.6075° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.9305° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 16.57 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 5km S of Hualian, Taiwan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2019-04-15 15:26:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-04-24 18:13:04 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 298 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 0.242 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.61 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 52 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 us70003bdm Id of event.
Event Code 70003bdm An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003bdm, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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