A light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) has struck on Monday, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 22/04/24 / 2024-04-22 21:26:22 / April 22, 2024 @ 9:26 pm. The 4.6-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 21:26:22 / 9:26 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Unique identifier: us6000muz7. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000muz7. Exact location of earthquake, 121.5604° East, 23.7068° North, depth 10 km.
Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nantou, Zhongxing New Village, Lugu (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 30 km (19 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop), 94 km (58 miles) from Nantou (c. 105 700 pop), 67 km (41 miles) from Puli (c. 86 400 pop), 93 km (58 miles) from Zhongxing New Village (c. 25 500 pop), 82 km (51 miles) from Lugu (c. 19 600 pop). Nearby country/countries, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop) (That might be effected).
There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one hundred and twenty-one, in the last 10 days one hundred and thirty-one, in the past 30 days one hundred and thirty-one and in the last 365 days one hundred and thirty-one earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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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. 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: 30 km S of Hualien City, Taiwan.
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