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Moderate earthquake: M5.1 quake has struck near Hualien City in Taiwan


Earthquake location 23.6672S, 121.573WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.1 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/04/24 / 2024-04-22 11:45:35 / April 22, 2024 @ 11:45 am. Exact location of event, longitude 121.573 East, latitude 23.6672 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 11:45:35 / 11:45 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000mduc. Id of event: us7000mduc.

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Douliu, Taichung, Nantou (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 105 km (65 miles) from Taichung (c. 1 040 700 pop), 35 km (21 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Douliu (c. 104 700 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 96 km (60 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop), 84 km (52 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 has occurred nearby. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 34 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 5.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.573° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.6672° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34 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 11:45:35 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-06 14:14:32 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 1 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.2 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 62 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.373 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 80 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 us7000mduc Id of event.
Event Code 7000mduc An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mduc, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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