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Light earthquake, 4.7 mag was detected near Hualian in Taiwan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Hualian in Taiwan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 19/02/20 / 2020-02-19 05:27:44 / February 19, 2020 @ 5:27 am UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70007swc. Id of event: us70007swc. Exact location of event, longitude 121.6149 East, latitude 23.8199 North, depth = 2.36 km. The temblor was reported at 13:27:44 / 1:27 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 2.36 km (1 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nantou, Zhongxing New Village, Lugu (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 17 km (11 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop). Close country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days five, in the past 30 days eight and in the last 365 days fifty-six earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 17 km S of Hualian, Taiwan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.7 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	121.6149° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	23.8199° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	2.36 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17km 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	2020-02-19 05:27:44	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-19 05:47:01	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	340	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	0.352	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.91 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	100	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	us70007swc	Id of event.
Event Code	70007swc	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70007swc,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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