A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Thursday, 12 kilometers (7 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. The temblor was reported at 12:36:25 / 12:36 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 09/05/24 / 2024-05-09 12:36:25 / May 9, 2024 @ 12:36 pm. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 14.24 km (9 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us6000mxex. Event ids that are associated: us6000mxex. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.6673 East, latitude 23.8767 North, depth = 14.24 km.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lugu, Puli, Hualian (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Earthquake epicenter was 13 km (8 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop).
Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been ten, in the last 10 days twenty, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty-seven and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-seven earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.
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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: 12 km SSE of Hualien City, Taiwan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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