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Light earthquake 4.4 mag, 26 km SSW of Hualien City, Taiwan


Earthquake location 23.7402S, 121.5431WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 26 kilometers (16 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. Global time and date of event 22/04/24 / 2024-04-22 15:56:44 / April 22, 2024 @ 3:56 pm UTC/GMT. The temblor was reported at 15:56:44 / 3:56 pm (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.5431 East, latitude 23.7402 North, depth = 10.478 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000mdw6. Id of event: us7000mdw6. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10.478 km (7 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Nantou, Zhongxing New Village, Lugu (min 5000 pop). The epicenter was 27 km (17 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 64 km (39 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 91 km (56 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop), 80 km (50 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop). Nearby 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. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. 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 have been detected in the same area.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 26 km SSW of Hualien City, Taiwan. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.5431° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.7402° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10.478 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 26 km SSW 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 15:56:44 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-01 17:26:56 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 80 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.413 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.73 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 mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us7000mdw6 Id of event.
Event Code 7000mdw6 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us7000mdw6, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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