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


Earthquake location 23.9204S, 122.3737WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) strikes 78 kilometers (48 miles) from Hualien City in Taiwan on Monday. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The 4.4-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 07:56:02 / 7:56 am (local time epicenter). The epicenter was at a depth of 26.417 km (16 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 20/05/24 / 2024-05-20 07:56:02 / May 20, 2024 @ 7:56 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of event, longitude 122.3737 East, latitude 23.9204 North, depth = 26.417 km. All ids that are associated to the event: us6000mzs3. Unique identifier: us6000mzs3.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Hualian. The epicenter was 78 km (49 miles) from Hualian (c. 350 500 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Taiwan (c. 22 894 000 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days eight, in the past 30 days one hundred and twenty-three and in the last 365 days one hundred and twenty-eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected 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. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 78 km E 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 122.3737° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 23.9204° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 26.417 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 78 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 2024-05-20 07:56:02 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-05-20 08:44:12 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 96 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.797 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.78 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 73 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mwr The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000mzs3 Id of event.
Event Code 6000mzs3 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000mzs3, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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