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Light earthquake: M4.9 quake has struck near Hengchun in Taiwan


Earthquake location 22.4512S, 121.1019WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 61 kilometers (38 miles) from Hengchun in Taiwan. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 28/09/20 / 2020-09-28 20:50:56 / September 28, 2020 @ 8:50 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000c2ae. Id of event: us6000c2ae. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 23.4 km (15 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 20:50:56 / 8:50 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.1019 East, latitude 22.4512 North, depth = 23.4 km.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 83 km (52 miles) from Kaohsiung (c. 1 519 700 pop), 34 km (21 miles) from Taitung City (c. 109 600 pop), 62 km (38 miles) from Hengchun (c. 31 300 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Yujing (c. 16 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yujing, Kaohsiung, Hengchun.

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 three, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days eighteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity 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: 61 km NE of Hengchun, Taiwan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.1019° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 22.4512° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 23.4 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 61 km NE of Hengchun, Taiwan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2020-09-28 20:50:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2020-09-28 21:07:13 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 369 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 0.365 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 103 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000c2ae Id of event.
Event Code 6000c2ae An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000c2ae, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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