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Strong earthquake 6.1 mag, 13 km SSW of Hualien City, Taiwan

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Earthquake location 23.8622S, 121.5621WA earthquake magnitude 6.1 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 22/04/24 / 2024-04-22 18:32:48 / April 22, 2024 @ 6:32 pm. The temblor was picked up at 18:32:48 / 6:32 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of event, longitude 121.5621 East, latitude 23.8622 North, depth = 10 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000mt0s. Unique identifier: us6000mt0s. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Event epicenter was 95 km (59 miles) from Taichung (c. 1 040 700 pop), 121 km (75 miles) from Hsinchu (c. 404 100 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 105 km (65 miles) from Douliu (c. 104 700 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 61 km (38 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 117 km (73 miles) from Daxi (c. 84 500 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Hsinchu, Daxi, Douliu. Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop).

Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. Every year there are an estimated 135 earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and fourteen, 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.

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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: 13 km SSW of Hualien City, Taiwan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.5621° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.8622° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 13 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 2024-04-22 18:32:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-10 14:47:58 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 81 The total number of felt reports
CDI 7.4 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 7.84 The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level yellow 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 710 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 120 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.527 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.67 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 22 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mww The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000mt0s Id of event.
Event Code 6000mt0s An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mt0s, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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