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Moderate earthquake: M5 quake has struck near Hualien City in Taiwan

Posted by admin on May 17, 2024 0 Comments

Earthquake location 23.6617S, 121.5571WA moderate earthquake with magnitude 5 (ml/mb) was detected on Monday, 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 5-magnitude earthquake was detected at 11:25:56 / 11:25 am (local time epicenter). Global time and date of event 22/04/24 / 2024-04-22 11:25:56 / April 22, 2024 @ 11:25 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. Unique identifier: us6000muxz. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000muxz. Exact location, longitude 121.5571° East, latitude 23.6617° North, depth = 10 km.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Taichung, Douliu, Nantou (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 104 km (65 miles) from Taichung (c. 1 040 700 pop), 35 km (22 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 103 km (64 miles) from Douliu (c. 104 700 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 95 km (59 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop).

There are an estimated 1320 moderate quakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and fifteen, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty-three, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty-three and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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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. 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: 35 km S of Hualien City, Taiwan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.5571° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.6617° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 35 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 11:25:56 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-03 15:06:24 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 385 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 55 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.567 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.84 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 81 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 us6000muxz Id of event.
Event Code 6000muxz An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000muxz, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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