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Light earthquake, 4.9 mag was detected near Hualien City in Taiwan


Earthquake location 23.6522S, 121.6839WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.9 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. The temblor was picked up at 08:40:43 / 8:40 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000mx5p. Unique identifier: us6000mx5p. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13.048 km (8 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/05/24 / 2024-05-08 08:40:43 / May 8, 2024 @ 8:40 am. Exact location of event, longitude 121.6839 East, latitude 23.6522 North, depth = 13.048 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Close country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 37 km (23 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Lugu, Puli, Hualian (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been eleven, in the last 10 days eighteen, 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.

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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: 36 km SSE of Hualien City, Taiwan. This information 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 121.6839° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.6522° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 13.048 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 36 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 2024-05-08 08:40:43 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-08 09:08:48 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 30 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.439 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 141 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 us6000mx5p Id of event.
Event Code 6000mx5p An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mx5p, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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