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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Yilan in Taiwan

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Yilan in Taiwan. Unique identifier: us6000c7s1. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000c7s1. Exact location, longitude 121.9487° East, latitude 24.4863° North, depth = 14.26 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 12/10/20 / 2020-10-12 15:39:43 / October 12, 2020 @ 3:39 pm. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 14.26 km (9 miles). The 4.3-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 15:39:43 / 3:39 pm (local time epicenter).

The epicenter was 75 km (47 miles) from Taipei (c. 7 871 900 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Banqiao (c. 543 300 pop), 87 km (54 miles) from Taoyuan City (c. 402 000 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Keelung (c. 397 500 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 36 km (22 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taoyuan City, Daxi, Banqiao (min 5000 pop).

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 one, in the past 30 days three and in the last 365 days fifty-five 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. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 35 km SSE of Yilan, Taiwan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	121.9487° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	24.4863° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	14.26 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	35 km SSE of Yilan, Taiwan	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-10-12 15:39:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-10-12 17:35:16	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	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	0.448	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	56	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	us6000c7s1	Id of event.
Event Code	6000c7s1	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000c7s1,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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