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Moderate earthquake, 5.7 mag was detected near Hualian in Taiwan

Posted by admin on February 15, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 23.8442S, 121.5392WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.7 (ml/mb) was detected on Saturday, 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Hualian in Taiwan. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. All ids that are associated to the event: us70007qtx. Unique identifier: us70007qtx. The temblor was detected at 19:00:06 / 7:00 pm (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 15/02/20 / 2020-02-15 11:00:06 / February 15, 2020 @ 11:00 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 121.5392° East, 23.8442° North, depth 10 km.

Epicenter of the event was 93 km (58 miles) from Taichung (c. 1 040 700 pop), 16 km (10 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 102 km (64 miles) from Douliu (c. 104 700 pop), 104 km (64 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 59 km (37 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yilan, Douliu, Taichung. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop).

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 fifty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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: 16 km SSW of Hualian, Taiwan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.5392° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.8442° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 16km SSW 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 2020-02-15 11:00:06 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-02-15 11:19:04 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 500 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 0.332 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.05 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 35 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 us70007qtx Id of event.
Event Code 70007qtx An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70007qtx, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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