Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 48 km NE of Su’ao, Taiwan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 48 kilometers (30 miles) from Su’ao in Taiwan on Sunday. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:46:04 / 7:46 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, depth 8.58 km, 122.2445° East, 24.8473° North. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 8.58 km (5 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 31/08/19 / 2019-08-31 23:46:04 / August 31, 2019 @ 11:46 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70005aqn. Id of event: us70005aqn.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Daxi, Banqiao, Taipei (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Taipei (c. 7 871 900 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Banqiao (c. 543 300 pop), 60 km (37 miles) from Keelung (c. 397 500 pop), 51 km (31 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Daxi (c. 84 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days thirty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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: 48 km NE of Su’ao, Taiwan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	122.2445° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	24.8473° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.58 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	48km NE of Su'ao, Taiwan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2019-08-31 23:46:04	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-09-01 00:24:04	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	312	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	0.793	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.02 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	50	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	us70005aqn	Id of event.
Event Code	70005aqn	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70005aqn,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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