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Light earthquake: M4.5 quake has struck near Yujing in Taiwan


Earthquake location 23.0756S, 121.3508WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) was reported 91 kilometers (57 miles) from Yujing in Taiwan on Thursday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 17/09/20 / 2020-09-17 01:37:52 / September 17, 2020 @ 1:37 am. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 13.63 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. Exact location, longitude 121.3508° East, latitude 23.0756° North, depth = 13.63 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us7000bp89. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000bp89. The temblor was detected at 01:37:52 / 1:37 am (local time epicenter).

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lugu, Yujing, Taitung City. Close country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 41 km (26 miles) from Taitung City (c. 109 600 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop), 91 km (57 miles) from Yujing (c. 16 600 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. 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 one, in the past 30 days four and in the last 365 days twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 91 km E of Yujing, Taiwan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.3508° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.0756° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.63 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 91 km E of Yujing, Taiwan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-09-17 01:37:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-17 02:50:42 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 0.319 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 134 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 us7000bp89 Id of event.
Event Code 7000bp89 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000bp89, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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