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Light earthquake, 4.5 mag has occurred near Hualien City in Taiwan

Posted by admin on May 30, 2020 0 Comments

Earthquake location 24.0648S, 121.5873WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has struck on Saturday, 9 kilometers (6 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. Exact location of event, depth 18.66 km, 121.5873° East, 24.0648° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us6000a2n6. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000a2n6. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 18.66 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 13:02:30 / 1:02 pm (local time epicenter). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/05/20 / 2020-05-30 13:02:30 / May 30, 2020 @ 1:02 pm.

Epicenter of the event was 92 km (57 miles) from Taichung (c. 1 040 700 pop), 10 km (6 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 79 km (49 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 64 km (40 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Daxi (c. 84 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop). Close country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Daxi, Nantou, Zhongxing New Village (min 5000 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 has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. 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: 9 km N of Hualien City, Taiwan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.5873° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.0648° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 18.66 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 9 km N of Hualien City, Taiwan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-05-30 13:02:30 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-05-30 13:40:15 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 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 312 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 0.108 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.42 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 86 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 us6000a2n6 Id of event.
Event Code 6000a2n6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000a2n6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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