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Moderate earthquake, 5.1 mag was detected near Hualien City in Taiwan

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A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was reported 56 kilometers (35 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan on Sunday. The temblor was detected at 02:40:56 / 2:40 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us7000mdkn. Unique identifier: us7000mdkn. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.6163 East, latitude 23.4672 North, depth = 34.394 km. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 21/04/24 / 2024-04-21 02:40:56 / April 21, 2024 @ 2:40 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 34.394 km (21 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lugu, Taitung City, Puli. Epicenter of the event was 57 km (35 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Taitung City (c. 109 600 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and eighteen, 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. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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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. 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: 56 km S of Hualien City, Taiwan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.1 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	121.6163° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	23.4672° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	34.394 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	56 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	2024-04-21 02:40:56	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-11 23:29:26	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	14	The total number of felt reports
CDI	3.9	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	406	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	88	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.302	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	63	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	us7000mdkn	Id of event.
Event Code	7000mdkn	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000mdkn,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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