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Light earthquake 4.3 mag, 73 km E of Hualien City, Taiwan


Earthquake location 23.9331S, 122.3285WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was reported 73 kilometers (45 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan on Wednesday. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000mvt9. Id of event: us6000mvt9. The temblor was reported at 17:06:49 / 5:06 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Exact location, longitude 122.3285° East, latitude 23.9331° North, depth = 29.786 km. The epicenter was at a depth of 29.786 km (19 miles). Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 24/04/24 / 2024-04-24 17:06:49 / April 24, 2024 @ 5:06 pm.

Epicenter of the earthquake was 74 km (46 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop). 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 Hualian.

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 fourty-seven, in the last 10 days one hundred and thirty, in the past 30 days one hundred and thirty and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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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. 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: 73 km E of Hualien City, Taiwan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 122.3285° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.9331° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 29.786 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 73 km E 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 2024-04-24 17:06:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-06 21:09:09 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 284 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 27 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.819 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.52 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 60 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 us6000mvt9 Id of event.
Event Code 6000mvt9 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mvt9, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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