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Light earthquake 4.9 mag, 28 km S of Hualien City, Taiwan


Earthquake location 23.717S, 121.6324WA light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) strikes 28 kilometers (17 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan on Monday. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 12.142 km (8 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 09:52:54 / 9:52 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 22/04/24 / 2024-04-22 09:52:54 / April 22, 2024 @ 9:52 am UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Id of earthquake: us7000mdt4. Event ids that are associated: us7000mdt4. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.6324 East, latitude 23.717 North, depth = 12.142 km.

The epicenter was 29 km (18 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 100 km (62 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop), 90 km (56 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nantou, Zhongxing New Village, Lugu. Nearby country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and seventeen, 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. Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 28 km S of Hualien City, Taiwan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.9 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.6324° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.717° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 12.142 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 28 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 09:52:54 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-04-22 10:23:14 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 65 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.446 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.14 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 82 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 us7000mdt4 Id of event.
Event Code 7000mdt4 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mdt4, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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