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Moderate earthquake, 5.4 mag was detected near Hualien City in Taiwan


Earthquake location 23.7314S, 121.5507WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000mwnh. Event ids that are associated: us6000mwnh. The temblor was reported at 09:52:45 / 9:52 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 06/05/24 / 2024-05-06 09:52:45 / May 6, 2024 @ 9:52 am. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 28.867 km (18 miles). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.5507 East, latitude 23.7314 North, depth = 28.867 km.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Douliu, Taichung, Nantou. Event epicenter was 99 km (62 miles) from Taichung (c. 1 040 700 pop), 28 km (17 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 93 km (57 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Douliu (c. 104 700 pop), 65 km (40 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been thirteen, in the last 10 days twenty-seven, 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. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures.

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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: 27 km SSW of Hualien City, Taiwan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.5507° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.7314° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 28.867 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 27 km SSW 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 2024-05-06 09:52:45 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-09 18:15:47 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 29 The total number of felt reports
CDI 7.9 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 5.693 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level green 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 472 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 116 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.41 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 32 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000mwnh Id of event.
Event Code 6000mwnh An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mwnh, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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