Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 20 km NNE of Hualien City, Taiwan


Earthquake location 24.1595S, 121.6577WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Event id: us6000mu4c. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000mu4c. Exact location of earthquake, 121.6577° East, 24.1595° North, depth 37.395 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 19:13:28 / 7:13 pm (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 37.395 km (23 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 26/04/24 / 2024-04-26 19:13:28 / April 26, 2024 @ 7:13 pm UTC/GMT.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 21 km (13 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 67 km (42 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Daxi (c. 84 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Daxi, Puli, Yilan (min 5000 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-one, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty-seven, 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. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

Did you feel it?

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. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 20 km NNE of Hualien City, Taiwan.

Copyright © 2024 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.6577° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.1595° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 37.395 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 20 km NNE 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 2024-04-26 19:13:28 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-04-27 18:47:52 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 298 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 102 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.569 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 33 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000mu4c Id of event.
Event Code 6000mu4c An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mu4c, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply