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


Earthquake location 24.1428S, 121.6932WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 20 kilometers (12 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan on Tuesday. The temblor was detected at 04:07:48 / 4:07 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 38.014 km (24 miles). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/04/24 / 2024-04-30 04:07:48 / April 30, 2024 @ 4:07 am. Id of earthquake: us6000mx6d. Event ids that are associated: us6000mx6d. Exact location of event, depth 38.014 km, 121.6932° East, 24.1428° North. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Epicenter of the event was 21 km (13 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Yilan (c. 94 200 pop), 76 km (47 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Daxi (c. 84 500 pop). Nearby country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Daxi, Puli, Yilan.

In the past 24 hours, there have been twenty-one, in the last 10 days one hundred and twenty-three, 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. 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.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity 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: 20 km NNE of Hualien City, Taiwan. This information 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 121.6932° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 24.1428° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 38.014 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 2024-04-30 04:07:48 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-09 02:52:25 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 41 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.599 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.72 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 79 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 us6000mx6d Id of event.
Event Code 6000mx6d An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mx6d, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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