A light earthquake magnitude 4.2 (ml/mb) strikes 86 kilometers (53 miles) from Ma-kung in Taiwan on Thursday. All ids that are associated to the event: us600052ta. Unique identifier: us600052ta. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 118.7462 East, latitude 23.6321 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was detected at 16:50:31 / 4:50 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 01/08/19 / 2019-08-01 08:50:31 / August 1, 2019 @ 8:50 am UTC/GMT.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Ma-kung (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 86 km (53 miles) from Ma-kung (c. 56 400 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 two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. 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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 86 km W of Ma-kung, Taiwan.
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