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Light earthquake: M4.4 quake has struck near Hualien City in Taiwan


Earthquake location 23.7438S, 121.4487WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan on Monday. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. 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 11:32:21 / April 22, 2024 @ 11:32 am. Event id: us6000muyv. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000muyv. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.4487 East, latitude 23.7438 North, depth = 10 km. The temblor was reported at 11:32:21 / 11:32 am (local time epicenter).

Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop). Epicenter of the earthquake was 90 km (56 miles) from Taichung (c. 1 040 700 pop), 30 km (19 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Douliu (c. 104 700 pop), 55 km (34 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 81 km (50 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Douliu, Taichung, Nantou (min 5000 pop).

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

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 30 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 121.4487° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.7438° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 10 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 30 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 11:32:21 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-03 17:33:22 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 32 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.376 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.19 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 94 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 us6000muyv Id of event.
Event Code 6000muyv An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000muyv, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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