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Light earthquake, 4 mag was detected near Hualian in Taiwan


Earthquake location 24.064S, 122.3208WA light earthquake with magnitude 4 (ml/mb) was reported 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Hualian in Taiwan on Wednesday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 45.26 km (28 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 122.3208 East, latitude 24.064 North, depth = 45.26 km. Event id: us70003ga9. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70003ga9. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 24/04/19 / 2019-04-24 09:06:09 / April 24, 2019 @ 9:06 am. The temblor was reported at 17:06:09 / 5:06 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 73 km (46 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hualian (min 5000 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days twelve and in the last 365 days fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Each 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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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 73 km E of Hualian, Taiwan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.3208° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.064° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 45.26 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 73km E 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 2019-04-24 09:06:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2019-05-23 05:18:22 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 246 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 0.672 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.49 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 161 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 us70003ga9 Id of event.
Event Code 70003ga9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70003ga9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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