A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 34 kilometers (21 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. Exact time and date of earthquake 22/04/24 / 2024-04-22 11:27:50 / April 22, 2024 @ 11:27 am UTC/GMT. The temblor was detected at 11:27:50 / 11:27 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us6000muxw. Event ids that are associated: us6000muxw. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.7675 East, latitude 23.7058 North, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface.
Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Puli, Hualian. Epicenter of the event was 34 km (21 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop). Close 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 twenty, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty-eight, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty-eight and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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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, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 34 km SSE of Hualien City, Taiwan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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