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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Hualian in Taiwan


Earthquake location 24.0241S, 122.2212WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has occurred on Sunday, 62 kilometers (39 miles) from Hualian in Taiwan. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake was detected at 19:36:41 / 7:36 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 122.2212 East, latitude 24.0241 North, depth = 37.09 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 37.09 km (23 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event id: us70008ut2. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us70008ut2. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/04/20 / 2020-04-12 11:36:41 / April 12, 2020 @ 11:36 am.

The epicenter was 63 km (39 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yilan, Hualian.

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days sixty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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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. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 62 km E of Hualian, Taiwan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.2212° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.0241° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.09 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 62km E 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 2020-04-12 11:36:41 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-04-12 11:53:14 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 480 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.1 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 0.591 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.89 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 88 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us70008ut2 Id of event.
Event Code 70008ut2 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us70008ut2, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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