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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag strikes near Hualien City in Taiwan


Earthquake location 24.0002S, 122.2704WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported 67 kilometers (42 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan on Wednesday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 24/04/24 / 2024-04-24 18:12:16 / April 24, 2024 @ 6:12 pm. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000mvti. Id of event: us6000mvti. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 122.2704 East, latitude 24.0002 North, depth = 26.837 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was reported at 18:12:16 / 6:12 pm (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 26.837 km (17 miles).

Epicenter of the event was 68 km (42 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop). Nearby country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter 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 was reported nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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: 67 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 122.2704° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.0002° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26.837 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 67 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 18:12:16 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-06 21:46:09 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 400 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 98 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 0.95 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 70 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 us6000mvti Id of event.
Event Code 6000mvti An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mvti, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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