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Strong earthquake 6.1 mag, 29 km S of Hualien City, Taiwan

Posted by admin on May 16, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 23.7141S, 121.6599WA earthquake magnitude 6.1 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 29 kilometers (18 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000mt0r, pt24113001, at00sccwl0. Unique identifier: us6000mt0r. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has been issued near Hualien City in Taiwan (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of earthquake 22/04/24 / 2024-04-22 18:26:52 / April 22, 2024 @ 6:26 pm UTC/GMT. The 6.1-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 18:26:52 / 6:26 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location, longitude 121.6599° East, latitude 23.7141° North, depth = 9 km.

Close country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Taitung City, Yilan, Douliu (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 110 km (69 miles) from Taichung (c. 1 040 700 pop), 30 km (18 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 119 km (74 miles) from Taitung City (c. 109 600 pop), 104 km (64 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 114 km (71 miles) from Douliu (c. 104 700 pop), 116 km (72 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 135 quakes in the world. Earthquakes 6.0 to 6.9 may cause a lot of damage in very populated areas. 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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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 29 km S of Hualien City, Taiwan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 6.1 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.6599° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.7141° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9 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 18:26:52 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-05 10:01:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 66 The total number of felt reports
CDI 7.3 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI 6.772 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 1 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 621 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,pt,at, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 119 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.462 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.76 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 35 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 us6000mt0r Id of event.
Event Code 6000mt0r An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mt0r,pt24113001,at00sccwl0, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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