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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag has occurred near Hualien City in Taiwan


Earthquake location 23.7355S, 121.6162WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) strikes 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan on Monday. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/04/24 / 2024-04-22 11:13:11 / April 22, 2024 @ 11:13 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The 5.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 11:13:11 / 11:13 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 121.6162 East, latitude 23.7355 North, depth = 10 km. Event id: us7000mdtl. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000mdtl.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Taichung, Nantou, Zhongxing New Village. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Event epicenter was 105 km (65 miles) from Taichung (c. 1 040 700 pop), 27 km (17 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 99 km (61 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and fifteen, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty-three, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty-three and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-three 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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 26 km S of Hualien City, Taiwan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.6162° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.7355° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26 km S 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 2024-04-22 11:13:11 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-06 14:10:36 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 3.8 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 401 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 74 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.45 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.93 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 65 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 us7000mdtl Id of event.
Event Code 7000mdtl An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mdtl, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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