Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 13 km NE of Hualien City, Taiwan

A light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 13 kilometers (8 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. Unique identifier: us6000mt7l. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000mt7l. Exact location of earthquake, 121.6927° East, 24.0676° North, depth 6.571 km. The temblor was picked up at 16:02:21 / 4:02 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 6.571 km (4 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 23/04/24 / 2024-04-23 16:02:21 / April 23, 2024 @ 4:02 pm. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Event epicenter was 103 km (64 miles) from Taichung (c. 1 040 700 pop), 13 km (8 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Daxi (c. 84 500 pop), 102 km (63 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Taichung, Lugu, Daxi. Country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop).

There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been eighty-six, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty-four, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty-four and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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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. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 13 km NE of Hualien City, Taiwan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	121.6927° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	24.0676° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6.571 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	13 km NE 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	2024-04-23 16:02:21	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-04-25 17:07:06	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	369	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	124	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.665	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.62 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	44	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	us6000mt7l	Id of event.
Event Code	6000mt7l	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000mt7l,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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