Light earthquake, 4.8 mag has occurred near Hualian in Taiwan

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.8 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 21 kilometers (13 miles) from Hualian in Taiwan. Global time and date of event 26/02/20 / 2020-02-26 05:34:13 / February 26, 2020 @ 5:34 am UTC/GMT. The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.6798 East, latitude 23.7991 North, depth = 10 km. Id of earthquake: us600084fu. Event ids that are associated: us600084fu. The temblor was picked up at 13:34:13 / 1:34 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 21 km (13 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 75 km (46 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lugu, Puli, Hualian. Nearby country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days ten and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. 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. 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: 21 km SSE of Hualian, Taiwan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.8 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	121.6798° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	23.7991° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	21km SSE 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	2020-02-26 05:34:13	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-02-26 06:27:43	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	354	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	0.381	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	87	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	us600084fu	Id of event.
Event Code	600084fu	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us600084fu,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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