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Light earthquake 4.5 mag, 11 km ENE of Hualien City, Taiwan


Earthquake location 24.0028S, 121.7181WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan on Tuesday. The temblor was reported at 02:34:14 / 2:34 am (local time epicenter). Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000myf9. Id of event: us6000myf9. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 14/05/24 / 2024-05-14 02:34:14 / May 14, 2024 @ 2:34 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, depth 21.848 km, 121.7181° East, 24.0028° North. The epicenter was at a depth of 21.848 km (14 miles).

Close country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Nearest city/cities or towns, with min 5000 pop, to epicentrum/hypocenter was Yilan, Puli, Hualian. The epicenter was 12 km (7 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 84 km (52 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop).

Every year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days seventeen, 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 nearby.

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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: 11 km ENE of Hualien City, Taiwan. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 121.7181° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.0028° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 21.848 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 11 km ENE 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 2024-05-14 02:34:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-14 04:43:40 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 44 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.72 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.69 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 67 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 us6000myf9 Id of event.
Event Code 6000myf9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000myf9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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