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Light earthquake 4.7 mag, 34 km S of Hualien City, Taiwan


Earthquake location 23.6701S, 121.6589WA light earthquake magnitude 4.7 (ml/mb) strikes 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan on Thursday. Unique identifier: us6000mtkr. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000mtkr. Exact time and date of earthquake 25/04/24 / 2024-04-25 00:19:12 / April 25, 2024 @ 12:19 am UTC/GMT. Exact location, longitude 121.6589° East, latitude 23.6701° North, depth = 9.576 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 9.576 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.7-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 00:19:12 / 12:19 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lugu, Puli, Hualian. The epicenter was 35 km (21 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been fourty-three, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty-seven, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city 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: 34 km S of Hualien City, Taiwan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.7 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.6589° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.6701° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 9.576 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 34 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 2024-04-25 00:19:12 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-04-25 00:44:42 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 1 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 340 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 42 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.432 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.1 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 46 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 us6000mtkr Id of event.
Event Code 6000mtkr An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mtkr, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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