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

Posted by admin on May 16, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 23.7236S, 121.5707WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.2 (ml/mb) strikes 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan on Monday. The temblor was reported at 21:24:31 / 9:24 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us6000mt21. Event ids that are associated: us6000mt21. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.5707 East, latitude 23.7236 North, depth = 4.716 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 4.716 km (3 miles) below the earth’s surface. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 22/04/24 / 2024-04-22 21:24:31 / April 22, 2024 @ 9:24 pm.

Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Douliu, Taichung, Nantou. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Event epicenter was 102 km (63 miles) from Taichung (c. 1 040 700 pop), 28 km (18 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Douliu (c. 104 700 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop), 83 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 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 have been detected nearby. There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 28 km S of Hualien City, Taiwan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.2 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.5707° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.7236° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 4.716 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28 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 21:24:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-04-22 22:01:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI 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 56 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.414 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 94 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 us6000mt21 Id of event.
Event Code 6000mt21 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mt21, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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