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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag strikes near Hualien City in Taiwan


Earthquake location 23.9696S, 122.2944WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 70 kilometers (43 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/04/24 / 2024-04-24 18:11:56 / April 24, 2024 @ 6:11 pm. The temblor was detected at 18:11:56 / 6:11 pm (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000mthz. Unique identifier: us6000mthz. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 122.2944° East, latitude 23.9696° North, depth = 35.376 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 35.376 km (22 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Earthquake epicenter was 70 km (44 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Yilan, Hualian (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty, 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. 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.

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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: 70 km E of Hualien City, Taiwan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.2944° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.9696° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 35.376 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 70 km E 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 2024-04-24 18:11:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-06 21:35:27 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 8 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.9 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 402 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 178 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.821 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.7 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 50 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 us6000mthz Id of event.
Event Code 6000mthz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mthz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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