A light earthquake magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) has struck on Wednesday, 31 kilometers (19 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. Exact time and date of earthquake 24/04/24 / 2024-04-24 03:28:24 / April 24, 2024 @ 3:28 am UTC/GMT. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us6000mtdh. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000mtdh. The temblor was detected at 03:28:24 / 3:28 am (local time epicenter). Exact location of earthquake, longitude 121.624 East, latitude 23.6931 North, depth = 10 km.
Epicenter of the event was 32 km (20 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 73 km (45 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop). Close country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Lugu, Puli, Hualian (min 5000 pop).
In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty, 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 was reported nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.
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