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Moderate earthquake 5.2 mag, 29 km S of Hualien City, Taiwan


Earthquake location 23.7074S, 121.595WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was reported 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan on Monday. Exact location of event, longitude 121.595 East, latitude 23.7074 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/04/24 / 2024-04-22 10:46:22 / April 22, 2024 @ 10:46 am. Unique identifier: us7000mdtc. Ids that are associated to the event: us7000mdtc. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The temblor was detected at 10:46:22 / 10:46 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Douliu, Taichung, Nantou (min 5000 pop). 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), 30 km (19 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 98 km (61 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 107 km (67 miles) from Douliu (c. 104 700 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop), 86 km (53 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 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 nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 29 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 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.595° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.7074° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 29 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 10:46:22 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-04-23 20:18:29 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 3 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 417 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 66 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.974 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 75 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 us7000mdtc Id of event.
Event Code 7000mdtc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mdtc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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