Light earthquake, 4.3 mag was detected near Su’ao in Taiwan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Friday, 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Su’ao in Taiwan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, 122.1115° East, 24.2252° North, depth 38.5 km. The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 12:11:18 / 12:11 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 20/03/20 / 2020-03-20 04:11:18 / March 20, 2020 @ 4:11 am. Unique identifier: us70008gul. Ids that are associated to the event: us70008gul. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 38.5 km (24 miles).

Earthquake epicenter was 58 km (36 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop). Country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yilan, Hualian (min 5000 pop).

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

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 49 km SSE of Su’ao, Taiwan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	122.1115° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	24.2252° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	38.5 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	49km SSE 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	2020-03-20 04:11:18	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-04-01 01:10:00	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	284	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	0.474	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.55 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	90	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	us70008gul	Id of event.
Event Code	70008gul	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us70008gul,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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