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Moderate earthquake: M5.2 quake has struck near Hualien City in Taiwan

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A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 25 kilometers (16 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 22/04/24 / 2024-04-22 20:03:06 / April 22, 2024 @ 8:03 pm UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 121.6886 East, latitude 23.7645 North, depth = 8.08 km. Event id: us6000mt1g. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000mt1g. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 8.08 km (5 miles). The 5.2-magnitude earthquake was detected at 20:03:06 / 8:03 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquake epicenter was 25 km (16 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 106 km (66 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 76 km (48 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 104 km (65 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop). Close country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nantou, Zhongxing New Village, Lugu (min 5000 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 thirteen, 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 struck near. Each year there are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world.

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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: 25 km SSE of Hualien City, Taiwan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.2 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	121.6886° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	23.7645° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	8.08 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	25 km SSE 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 20:03:06	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-06 17:05:41	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	416	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	78	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.516	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.51 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	81	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	us6000mt1g	Id of event.
Event Code	6000mt1g	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000mt1g,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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