Light earthquake, 4.5 mag strikes near Hualien City in Taiwan

A light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 18 kilometers (11 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan on Monday. The epicenter was at a depth of 13.015 km (8 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/04/24 / 2024-04-22 18:31:49 / April 22, 2024 @ 6:31 pm. The temblor was detected at 18:31:49 / 6:31 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us6000muz0. Event ids that are associated: us6000muz0. Exact location of earthquake, 121.5981° East, 23.81° North, depth 13.015 km.

Country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Event epicenter was 19 km (12 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 96 km (59 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop), 86 km (54 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nantou, Zhongxing New Village, Lugu.

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

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 18 km S of Hualien City, Taiwan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	121.5981° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	23.81° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	13.015 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	18 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 18:31:49	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2024-05-04 17:17:32	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	312	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	21	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.499	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.63 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	132	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	us6000muz0	Id of event.
Event Code	6000muz0	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us6000muz0,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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