Light earthquake, 4.9 mag strikes near Hualien City in Taiwan

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A light earthquake magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) has occurred on Friday, 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. The 4.9-magnitude earthquake was detected at 01:37:23 / 1:37 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.6502 East, latitude 23.8255 North, depth = 10 km. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/05/24 / 2024-05-10 01:37:23 / May 10, 2024 @ 1:37 am. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000mxn5. Id of event: us6000mxn5. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nantou, Zhongxing New Village, Lugu (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 17 km (11 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 71 km (44 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 99 km (62 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been eight, in the last 10 days sixteen, 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 occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. 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: 17 km SSE of Hualien City, Taiwan.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.9 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	121.6502° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	23.8255° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	17 km SSE 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	2024-05-10 01:37:23	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-10 02:19:00	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	38	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.539	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.96 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	101	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	us6000mxn5	Id of event.
Event Code	6000mxn5	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000mxn5,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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