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Moderate earthquake: M5.6 quake has struck near Hualien City in Taiwan

Posted by admin on May 16, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 23.7158S, 121.63WA moderate earthquake magnitude 5.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 121.63 East, latitude 23.7158 North, depth = 10 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 10:50:31 / 10:50 am (local time epicenter). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/04/24 / 2024-04-22 10:50:31 / April 22, 2024 @ 10:50 am. All ids that are associated to the event: us7000mdti. Unique identifier: us7000mdti.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Douliu, Taichung, Nantou. Epicenter of the event was 107 km (67 miles) from Taichung (c. 1 040 700 pop), 29 km (18 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 111 km (69 miles) from Douliu (c. 104 700 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected).

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 earthquakes in the world. 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: 29 km S of Hualien City, Taiwan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.63° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.7158° 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 10:50:31 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-04-23 20:20:49 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 22 The total number of felt reports
CDI 4.7 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 6.043 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 493 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 77 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.444 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.88 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 74 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 us7000mdti Id of event.
Event Code 7000mdti An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mdti, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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