Light earthquake, 4.6 mag was detected near Hualian in Taiwan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Hualian in Taiwan. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 22:52:05 / 10:52 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us600056fm. Event ids that are associated: us600056fm. Exact location of event, longitude 121.588 East, latitude 23.6901 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Global time and date of event 17/08/19 / 2019-08-17 14:52:05 / August 17, 2019 @ 2:52 pm UTC/GMT.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nantou, Zhongxing New Village, Lugu (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 32 km (20 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 70 km (44 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop), 85 km (53 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been six, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days thirteen and in the last 365 days sixty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 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 information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 31 km S of Hualian, Taiwan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.6 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	121.588° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	23.6901° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	31km 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	2019-08-17 14:52:05	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2019-09-15 16:26:03	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	326	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	0.398	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.96 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	102	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	us600056fm	Id of event.
Event Code	600056fm	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us600056fm,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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